SKETCH OP THE CONIFERS OP JAPAN'. G33 



Brinckman, Lady, 40, Berkeley Square, "VV. 



Campbell, John, 106, Westbourne Terrace, Hyde Park, W. 



Hardy, Miss Charlotte, 3, Portland Place, W. 



Lane, Capt. George, 42, Montpelier Square, Brompton, S.AV. 



Mac Gillivray, Donald, 14, Park Road, St. John's Park, Hampstead, N.W. 



Paget, T. T., Humberstone, Leicestershire. 



LXXIX.— MONOGRAPHIC SKETCH OF THE 



CONIEERS OF JAPAN. 



By Andhew MCRUAy, Assistant Secretary. 



{Continued from page 512.) 



§ § 3. Larches (Larix), 

 Lakix Leptolepis. 



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Larix Coiifera, Ksempf., Amoeu. Exotic, 883 (1712). 

 Pintis Larix, Thunb., Flor. Jap., 275 (1784). 

 Pinus K(£mpferi, Lambert, Pinus. Pref. 7 (1832). 

 Abies LeptoUpis, Sieb. & Zucc, ii. p. 13, t. 103 (1842). 



Lindl. & Gortl, Journ. Hort. Soc. v. 213 (1850). 



Veltch, in Gardeners' Chronicle (1801). 

 Pinus Lexnolepis, Endl., Syn. Conif. 130 (Exclus. Syn. Kfempferi) 



(1847). 

 Larix Japonica (Hort.), Carriere, Trait. Conif. 272' (1855). 

 Larix Lejjtolepis, Gord., Pinet. 128 (1858), 



iMrix Leptolepis, var. minor. 



Fusi MatsHj Jap. = Pinus Nodosa — vel Kara Mats, Jap. = Finns e 



Kara *. c. (Ex Asia: borealis Oriente), 



Kiu, Aiuo. 



Bak Jo sjo, Sin. = Pinus f oliis deciduis. 



Larix foliis anuuis liuearibus obtusis, strobilis ovatis rptunda- 

 tis, squamis numerosis e basi attenuata orbicularibus emarginatis 

 vel rotundatis teneris striatis margine reflexis et undulato-laceris, 

 bracteis lauceolatis acutis. Seminibus subtrigonis, alis expansis 

 subpyramidatis (fig. 155). 



Var. minor, Strobilis et semlnibus mlnoribus. 



Japoniac septentrionalis indigena prinium occurrit in montibus 

 insulsB Nippon inter gradus 35 et 41 lat. bor. Frequenter 

 invenitur ia insulis Jezo et Krafto ad 48^ 1. b. usque. Sponte 

 crescit in montibus Fakone cum aliis Coniferis v, c. cum Thiijop- 



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