scales open, the wings project beyond them, giving them 
the appearance of having a white margin. Embryo straight, 
club-shaped, about } in. long ; cotyledons 4, about one-third 
as long as the radicle.—W. B. Humstey. 
Cuitivation.—As a garden tree the Golden Larch is 
perhaps the most beautiful of the Larix group. It is easily 
distinguished from the true Larches, even in the absence of 
cones, by the larger size and greater substance of the leaves. 
At all times attractive, it. is especially so in spring, when 
the young foliage is a beautiful shade of tender, yellowish 
green, and again in autumn, when the leaves turn a rich 
golden colour before falling. It thrives best in a good 
well-drained loamy soil. At Kew the natural soil of the 
gardens is too poor for this tree to succeed well. It is only 
by mixing with it a large proportion of stiff loam that 
Pseudolari« Kaempferi can be made to develop its char- 
acteristic beauty.—W. J. Bran. 
Fig. 1, a branch bearing male flowers ; 2, a male catkin; 3 and 4, anthers; 
5, a branch bearing female flowers; 6, a scale and its subtending bract; 7, a 
scale seen from the inside bearing two scales ; 8,a cone; 9, a seed :—/igs. 1, 5, 
and 8, natural size, the others enlarged. — 
