TAB. 9.
PINUS liARICIO.
CORSICAN PINE.
P inus L aricio, foliis geminis praslongis patentibus, vaginis subintegris, strobilis ovatis rectis subsolitariis :
squamis depressis obsolet^ 4-angulis. Don, in Neill s Horticul. Tour, p. 552.
Pinus Laricio. Poir. in Lam. Encycl, V. p. 339* Lam. et Decand. Flor. Fran. III. p. 274. Duham. Arb.
ed. alter, p. 239, t. 71 et 67, f. 2.
Pinus sylvestris s maritima. A it. Keia. III. p. 366.
Habitat in insulas Corsicas montibus summis, in Phrygian Ida Monte. P. B. Webb.
Arbor altit. 56 ped., pulcherrima, pyramidata, ad apicem attenuata, cortice badio integro et epidermide
deciduâ squamosâ tecta. Rami 8—10 in verticillis digesti, breviores et densiores quam Pino sylvestri.
Folia gemina, numerosa, prælonga (6—7-uncialia), lenta, patentia, acicularia, semicylindracea, subtùs
lucida, supra canaliculata atque levitèr striata, margine scabrè serrulala, apice mucrone corneo in-
structa, colore jucundè viridi. Vaginoe foliorum unciales, subintegræ, argenteo-fuscæ, nitidæ. Amenta
mascula in apice ramulorum terminalia, conferta, cylindracea, obtusa, unum v. sesquipollicem longa,
patula, incurva, basi squamis pluribus scariosis spadiceis bracteata. Antheroe cuneato-oblongæ, angu-
latæ, biloculares, subtùs rima diiplici longitudinali hiantes, apice cristâ subrotundâ convexâ mem-
branaceâ margine eroso-repandâ auctæ. Strobili sessiles, ovati, horizontalitèr porrecti, subsolitarii :
squamis induratis, ligneis, cinereo-fuscis, apice cuneatis depressis, obsoletè 4-angulis, spina umbonata
minuta durissimâ armatis. Don in loc. cit. (addenda description! amenta mascula.)
In my former work I have confounded this with Pinus maritima, from which it is widely different; and
as Table 9, given there as the male branch of Pinus maritima, belongs to the present species, I have been
induced to give the plate here afresh, with the addition of two cones, in order the more fully to obviate
the mistake. The preceding description, together with the following account, was taken by Mr. Don from
two fine trees which he saw in the Jardin du Roi at Paris in 1821, and published in the Appendix to
Mr. Neill’s interesting Horticultural Tour through France and the Netherlands. Mr. Don’s account is
as follows:—
“ This tree is totally distinct from all the varieties of Pinus Sylvestrio ; with which, however, it in some
respects agrees. The tree in the Arboretum on the buttes is thirty feet high, and three feet in circumference;
and immediately beside it is growing P. Sylvestris, or, as Professor Tliouin calls it, P. Scotica.
The difference is at first sight very striking. P . Laricio is a much handsomer and finer tree, and is of a
more pyramidal habit. Its branches are shorter and more regularly verticillate. Its leaves are a third
longer, and of a lively green, with their sheaths nearly entire. Its cones are shorter, ovate, and quite
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