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8ILVA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



CONIFER-ffi. 



Usually an inhabitant of lands saturated with water, Larix Americana, when transplanted to 

 uplands, ^rows in good soil much more rapidly than it does in its native swamps, attaining a larger size 

 and more picturesque habit, and of all the Larch-trees which have been tried in the northern states it 

 best deserves attention as an ornament of parks and gardens. 



longer it lyes the baider ifc growes, that you may almost drive a 

 nail into a bar of Iron as easily as into that." (Josselyn, An 

 Account of Two Voyages to New England, 68.) 



" The turpentine that issueth from the cones of the Larch-tree 

 (which comes nearest of any to the right Turpentine) is singularly 

 good to heal wounds, and to draw out the malice (or Thorn, as 



Helmont phrases it) of any Ach rubbing the place therewith, and 

 strewing upon it the powder of 5'a^e-leaves." (^Ihid, p. 67.) 



" I cured once a desperate Bruise with a Cut upon the Knee 



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Pan, with an Ungent made with the Leaves of the Larch Tree^ and 

 Hogs Grease, but the Gum is best." (Josselyn, New England 

 Rarities, 63.) 



EXPLANATION OF THE PLATE. 



Plate DXCIII. Lakix Americaka. 



1. A flowering branch, natural size. 



2. A starainate flower, enlarged, 



3. An anther, front view, enlarged. 



4. An anther, side view, enlarged. 



5. A pistillate flower, enlarged. 



6. A scale of a pistillate flower, upper side, with its bract and ovules, enlarged, 



7- A fruiting branch, natural size. 



8. A cone-scale, lower side, with its bract, natural size. 



9. A cone-scale, upper side, with its seeds, natural size. 



10. Vertical section of a seed, enlarged. 



11. An embryo, enlarged. 



12. Cross section of a leaf, magnified fifteen diameters. 



13. A winter branchlet, natural size. 



14. A seedling plant, natural size. 



