. Bergens Museums skrifter. Science. Remarks on the most Important Plant-Societies of the Island. 303 c. Pine-Forests. Three species of the genus Plnus grow wild on Cyprus, and two of them, viz. P. Ii(ilfjicnsi>; ami P. nigra (better known by the name of P. Laricio, which name, however, must be given up according to the present rules of botanical nomenclature), belong to the most important forest-trees of the island. Of the former species, "the Aleppo Pine" (P. halepenais), D. E. Hutchins says: "This is the tree that to-day forms nine tenths of the timbei- forests of Cyprus&q
. Bergens Museums skrifter. Science. Remarks on the most Important Plant-Societies of the Island. 303 c. Pine-Forests. Three species of the genus Plnus grow wild on Cyprus, and two of them, viz. P. Ii(ilfjicnsi>; ami P. nigra (better known by the name of P. Laricio, which name, however, must be given up according to the present rules of botanical nomenclature), belong to the most important forest-trees of the island. Of the former species, "the Aleppo Pine" (P. halepenais), D. E. Hutchins says: "This is the tree that to-day forms nine tenths of the timbei- forests of Cyprus" ')• And there can be no doubt that he is I'ight in making this Fiif. 128. Large Aleijpo Pine (Plnus halepemis), on the Road between the Villages Lagoudhera and Livad' Pines grow on Cyprus from the sea-level to very near the top of the highest mountain of the island, Chionistra (ca. 1950 m. a. s.). We iind the pines growing singly or in scattered, small groups in the most different parts of the island; only they seem to be not far from totally absent on the great plain-area, which stretches across the island from east to west, from the bay of Famagusta to that of Morphu. Veritable pine-forests are, however, pi-actically confined to the mountain-tracts of the island, above all to the southern Troodos-range, where several rather considerable stretches are found, but also to the northern, where P. halepensis not only in most places occupies a more or less prominent part in the cypress-forests, but in several places also forms true pine-forests. The only place where natural pine-forests (formed by P. halepensis) of mentionable dimensions descend as far as to the sea-level, is on the plain south of Cape Korraakiti; this forest, however, I have not personally had the opportunity of seeing. 1) Hutchins, Report on Cyprus Forestry, p. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - colora
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