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PINUS LARICIO
•N.-PINUS^LARraO. P^rel,Z7«t,v.,p. 339 (iS04); De Cand, .f/. /"r, iii., p. V4(i8os)i //«/, ^ r i , ii., p. 6
2200(1838); Forb«./'«W. f^W»n..,p.23 (1839)1 Loudon, 0/Fn-«', p! (1842) ;'Anloir
Com/., p. 3 (1840-5) ; De Chambray, TraiU Pysl. Arir. Rés. Conif., p, 245 (1845) ; Link in Linnaa, xv., p. 494 (1841
Schouw, A,mal. Sc. Nat.. 3rd sen, iii,, p. 234 (1845) ; Spach, HUI. V,g. Pk<m.. xi., p, 384 (>842) ; Lindley and Gordc
/^»rt. 5«., v.,p. 219(1850)1 Knight, O«,/, p, 27 ('850); Carrière, TraiU Gen. cUs p, 384 (1
figs, ., 2 ; De Chambray. TraiU Prat Ari. Ris. Conif. pl. iii,, figs, .2, .j, et pl. v., figs. 6,
Specific Cluiracter.—Y. f( s subscssilibus ov
I, latere superiore convcxo, iiml
Habitat in Corsica et Italia, in Apcnninis et Calabria in Sicilia, in Asia Minore et forsan i:
A tree reaching upwards of 100 feet in height. Trustworthy a- s say that in Corsica it has even
reached 180 feet in height and 10 feet in diameter; but these, of d
giants in their tribe. It is acutely pyramidal in shape, and, when growing alone, well clothcd with leaves
and branches; trunk straight, bark on the older parts of the tree rugged, thick, and leaden grey in colour;
on die young shoots, pale fawn-coloured. The alburnum whitish, and unusually thick, the heart-wood
y reddish. Branches spreading; when old, often bent down, but rising again towards the ends,
hlcts tolerably thick. Buds (fig. i ) not lai^e, from half-an-inch to an inch in length, and quarter of
an inch to half-an-inch in diameter, ovate at the base, peaked and drawn to a point towards the apex, like
a camel-hair paint-brush, with a good deal of whitish resin about them. Leaves (shewn in fig. i ) in twos,
clustered prett>' closely together, and oftcn rather mixed and dishevelled, rather long (from 4 to 6 inches),
stiff, often slitjhtly waved, of a rich dark green, with the margins serrulated, and the apex rather obtuse, with
about 8 rows of stomata on the back (fig, 2), and about 6 rows on each side on the face. The sheaths of
the young lca^•es are rather long and whitish ; when they are older they become brou'n and blackish, Male
catkins, clustered together(fig, 3), elongate in form, and about an inch and a half in length. Anthers (fig, 4)
pale yellow, the filament and loculi not vcr>- long, but with a large rounded crest (fig. 5), the margin of which
=/', Uricio. var. =, ; P. Laricio. var ft I, Tl in Willk. ec Un^e Prod. FI.
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