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Seeds greyish or black, twice as large as those of P. sylvestris. Cotyle-dons (see Jig. 2083.) 6 to 8.

Varieties. Judging front the names in Continental catalogues, these are nume-rous ; but, as these names are chiefly expressive of different localities, weare ignorant how far the plants are really distinct. In the Nouveau DuHamel, only one variety is given, which is characterised by the cones beinggreenish, those of the species being described as of a tawny or fawncolour. Delantarre, in his Traite Pratique, &c., enumerates fivevarieties, some of which, however, are considered by M. Vilmorinas being probably species; the cones not having yet been seen.

J P. L. I corsicana ; Laricio del’lie de Corse, Delamarre. —Conesof a tawny or fallow colour.

} P, i. 2 subviridis Nouveau Du Hamel. — Cones of a greenishyellow.

1 P. L. 3 caramanica; P. caram&nica Bose; P. caramaniensisBon Jard., ed. 1837, p. 974.; Laricio de Caramanie, ou del’Asia Mineure, Delamarre ; ? P. romana Bond. Ilort. Soc.

Gard. — P. L. caramanica seldom grows to above half theheight of P. L. corsicana : it has a much rounder andmore bushy head, with straight, or nearly straight, leaves,slender branches, reddish-coloured bark, and reddish buds,which are wholly, or in part, covered with white resin. Thescales of the cones, which are larger than those of P.

L. corsicana, are tipped with a harder and more hornypoint. This pine was introduced into France by Olivier,the author of Travels in the Levant, in the year 1798;and there were trees of it, producing cones with fertileseeds, in the grounds of Malmaison, in 1836. There isalso a tree in the garden of M. Perignon, at Auteuil; onein the nursery of M. Noisette; and another in that of M.

Cels, fils, which has ripened seeds. Delamarre remarks that 2083this variety is, in the French nurseries, erroneously called P. romana ;and, as the tree bearing this name in the garden of the London Hor-ticultural Society, now 20 ft. high, was received from Godefroyof Ville d’Avray, near Paris, in 1825 or before, it is most probablythis variety. Seeds of this variety were sent to us from Germanyin 1829, under the name of P. resinosa, and the plants which havebeen raised from them are found, at Methven Castle, to produceannual shoots surpassing in length those of the common Scotchpine, near to which they are planted. Mr. Bishop states thatthis variety bids fair to become available for the poorer soils ofScotland. (See High. Soc. Trans., vol. xi. p. 124.)

I P. L. 4 caldbrica; Laricio de Mont Sila en Calabre, Delamarre. — Thispine, Michaux and Vilmorin remark, in a note to Delamarre’s work,resembles the pine of Caramania; but, as there are only youngplants of it in France, which have not yet fruited, very little can besaid about it. It was introduced into France by M. Vilmorin in1819, 1820, and 1821; and 100 lb., of seeds, containing about threemillions, distributed.

i P. j L. 5 ausiriaca; Laricio d’Autriche, ou de la Hongrie, Delamarre .—Noisette is said to have found this variety in Hungary; but, accord-ing to Michaux and Vilmorin, in their notes to Delamarre’s Traite,&c., it scarcely differs from P. caramanica, which they say growsalso in liornania, and in the Crimea. The P. austriaca of Hoss( Anleit. die Bdume und Strduche Oesterreichs, &c., p. 6.), judgingfrom the author’s description, and from comparing the buds of theyoung plants in the Horticultural Society’s Garden, received fromMr. Lawson’s, with plants of the same age of P. L. corsicana,appears to be a variety of that species, and is probably identicalwith the Laricio d’Autriche of Delamarre; but, as we have not