144 TSUGA, OR HEMLOCK SPRUCE FIRS 



At the same time it grows here (Radnorshire), and 

 continues to grow, slowly it is true, where we have 

 planted it, at an altitude of some 700 feet above 

 sea-level. 



Its thick-set, short cones, often as broad as long, 

 call to mind the shape and appearance of a cone from 

 the Japanese Umbrella tree, or a small-fruited Nut 

 Pine. If not disqualified from the competition on 

 account of its un-Larchy deciduous cone scales, it is 

 next on the list to the Larix Griffithii in a size-measure- 

 ment contest of Larch cones. It is a tree that for 

 any differentiation purposes calls for no further 

 comment here than that accorded to it in our Table ; 

 and for this reason, that it is so un-Larchy in appear- 

 ance by the side of the truer-to-type other Larches. 

 It is on account of these differences that it has 

 incurred and deserved its prefix Pseudo, or False. 



CHINESE LARCH NOVELTIES 



There are also a few novelties that we can only 

 offer the briefest of jog-trot observations upon, that 

 are coming, or have very lately come, from Chinese 

 regions. Among them are the L. Potaninii — ^perhaps 

 an intermediate form between the L. Lyallii and the 

 L. Griffithii — and its affinity, the L. Mastersiana, of 

 abnormal-cone-bract fame. A rather dilapidated 

 cone of the latter was sent me from Szechuen and 

 from near the Chino-Thibetan frontier. It shows 

 evidences of a large wedge-shaped bract, overhanging 

 the scales, and which in the case of the L. Potaninii 

 is represented by a smaller edition of that accessory. 

 While the cone of the L. Potaninii measures nearly 

 2 in. by i in., that of the L. Mastersiana is if in. by 

 i in. in breadth. Others brought to light lately 

 are the true Asiatic Dahurica — not the so-called L. 



