straight, with depressed scales; and its bark is finer and much more entire. The enlightened Professor
of Agriculture informed us, that it is equally hardy with P . Sylvestris, and that its wood is much more
weighty and resinous, and consequently more compact, stronger, and more flexible, than that of P. Sylvestris.
It grows wild on the summits of the highest mountains in Corsica. I t seems to bear cones very
freely, which ripen nearly about the same time as those of P. Sylvestris. The tree from which the above
description was taken, stands near the centre of the General Arrangement,# was planted in 1784, and is
now fifty-six feet high.”
“ I observed,” says Mr. Hawkins, “ on Cyllene, Taygetus, and the mountains of Thasos, a sort of Fir,
which, although called Usvxoq by the inhabitants, and much resembling the Usvm of the lower regions,
differed from it in these particulars : the foliage was much darker, and the growth of the tree much more
regular and straight. The very elevated region on which it grew leads me to suspect it must be different
from the common IIsvkoq.” (Walpole s Memoirs relative to Turkey, &c. p. 2S6.J The Pinas Laricio is, I
have no doubt, the tree here mentioned, and especially as it is known to grow in Greece, and has been
found by Mr. Webb near the summit of Mount Ida, in Phrygia.
The branch represented in the plate is taken from a tree of this species growing in the Royal Gardens
at Kew.
EXPLANATION OF TABLE 9.
A. Male catkin magnified.
JB.B. Anther®.
C. C. Points of leaves magnified.
D . D. Cones.
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