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SKETCH OP THE CONIFEfiS OF JAPAX. 



ordinary size being 8 or 9 lines in length, and 5 in diameter. 

 Number of scales from 36 to 40 (figs. 166, 167). Seeds and 



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wngs smaller 



^ viz., from 9 to 3 J lines ia length, aud the wing 



much wider and more pyramidate in shape than in the type (figs. 

 168, 169, 170). 



Fk. 162. 



Fig. 164. 



Younger 

 tranches. 



Fig. 166. 



Scales. 



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Fig. 



167. — 3racts, 



Fig. 165. Older 

 branches. 



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This species differs from the Common Larch in the scales of 

 its cones being less numerous, undulated, and reflexed, and the 

 hracts not rounded from the base, Larix sibiriea, Ledeb., is 

 distinguished from it by having the scales of its cones not at all 

 emarginate, and its bracts being ovate or elliptical-mucronate. 

 LariiV 77iicrocarpa is at once distinguished by its very small cones 

 com.posed of no more than 8 to 13 scales. From Larix pendxda 

 it differs in the wings of the seeds being as long as the scale of the 

 cone ; and from all the species, by the length and tenuity of the leaf. 



Siebold says of this tree: '*The Fxizi MaUu belongs to the 



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