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Gen. LARIX. Link. The Larch. 



Flowers, monoecious, or male and female on the same plant, 

 but separate ; the male catkins small, without footstalks, and 

 egg-shaped ; the female ones erect, solitary, ovate, and much 

 larger than the males. 



Cones, small, oval- obtuse, or somewhat cylindrical, and con- 

 sisting of but few scales. 



Scales, persistent, leathery, thin towards the margins, and a 

 little reflected or undulated. 



Bracteas, either longer or shorter than the scales, unevenly 

 notched on the edges, ovate-pointed, or lanceolate. 



Seeds, very small, with a leathery covering and membrana- 

 ceous wing. 



Seed-leaves, from five to seven in number. 



Leaves, deciduous, linear, obtuse, soft, without footstalks, and 

 either produced in bundles or singly. 



Name derived from the Celtic word ' lar,' which signifies fat, 

 the trees producing abundance of resin. 



All deciduous trees, found in the colder parts of Europe, 

 Asia, and America. 



No. 1. Larix Dahurica, Turczaninow, the Dahurian Larch. 

 Syn. Larix Europaea Dahurica, Loudon. 

 „ „ Gmelini, Ledehour. 

 „ „ Archangelica, Lawson. 

 „ „ Sibirica, Ledehour. 

 „ „ Rossica, Saline. 

 „ Abies Gmelini, Rupprecht. 

 „ „ Kamtchatica, Rupprecht. 

 „ Pinus Dahurica, Fischer. 

 „ „ Sibirica, Loddiges. 



Leaves, single, or in bundles of many together round a central 

 bud ; they are single on the leading shoots and young plants, 

 soft, narrow, linear, blunt-pointed, spreading, recurved, and 



