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sthe others are pointing upwards , sessile and like those of the 
»first species, grow from the small triangular pedestals, of a 
»bark, spungy, soft and elastic. 'The under disk is of a deep 
glossy green, the other of a pale whitish green: the boughs 
retain the leaves of a six years growth: the bud scales resemble 
»those of the first species: the cone is of an ovate figure, three 
,and a half inches in length, and three in ceireumference, thickest 
;in the middle, and tapering and terminating in two obtuse points: 
»it is composed of small, flexible scales, imbricated, and of red- 
»dish brown colour. Each of these scales covers two small seeds, 
,and is itself covered in the centre by a small, thin, inferior 
scale, aeutely pointed: these scales proceed from the sides of 
»the bouzh, as well as from its extremities. It was nowhere 
,Seen above the Wappatoo.^ Lewis and Clarke. 
SEcri0. IV.  LARIX. Strobili squame persistentes, 
bracteis inclusis. Folia sessilia, annua, plana, fascicu- 
lata, tandem solitaria, pulvinis decurrentibus, lineari- 
bus, nec sursum incrassatis, totis adnatis, cicatricibus 
rhombeis v. triangularibus. Amenta staminigera ex apici- 
bus gemmarum foliiferarum. 
Larix Link in Linnea XV. 533. Laricis spec. Tournef. Abietis 
sp. Amt. 
31. PiNUS DAHURICA Fisch. 
Larix arctica foliis subclavato-tetragonis obtusis lineis 
duabus glaucescentibus, strobilis nutantibus, bracteis in- 
clusis e basi ovata cuspidatis, squamis laxis ovatis apice 
truncato emarginatis, seminum ala lacera. 
Abies foliis fasciculatis obtusis Gmelin Flor. Sibir. I. 176. n. 28. 
excl. synon. 
Pinus Larix americana Pallae Flor. Ross. I. 2. t. 1. I 
Pinus dahurica Fischer msc. 
Larix dahurica Turczaninow in Bullet. soc. nat. Mosqu. 18328. 
p. 101. T'rautvetter Imag. plant. 48. t. 32. 
Abies Gmelini Rupprecht in. Beitr. sur Pflanzenkund. des Russ. 
Reich. II. 56. 
