] 26 LARIX ; OR 



Larix Europ-ea alba, Endlichei\ 

 The White-flowered Common Larch. 



There are other varieties to be found in nurserymen's lists, but 

 which are of only trivial account, such as Larix Europaea laxa, 

 the loose- headed Larch, the Larix Europaea compacta, the com- 

 pact-headed Larch, and Larix Europaea, Killertnannii, a dwarf 

 monstrosity, with remarkably thickened branches, densely 

 clothed with leaves. 



No. 3. Larix Griffithiana, Hooker, the Sikkim Larch. 

 Syn. Abies Griffithiana, Lindley. 

 „ Larix Griffithii, Hort. 



Leaves, deciduous, growing in scattered bundles of many 

 together, round a central bud, or singly on the young shoots, 

 linear, narrow, and longer than those of the Common Larch ; 

 slightly glaucous when young, spreading, and of a beautiful light 

 green, but which, in autumn, before falling off, becomes of a red 

 colour. Cones,large, oblong, cylindrical,withoutfootstalks,blunt- 

 pointed, erect, two inches and a half long, and one inch broad, and 

 slightly incurved, reddish purple when young, and abounding 

 in tears of white resin. Scales, rounded, half an inch broad, 

 slightly uneven at the margin, and numerous. Bracteas, flat, 

 wedge-shaped, broadest near the base, and nearly as long as the 

 scales, to which they are attached ; unevenly notched on the 

 edges, and projecting beyond the lower scales. Seeds, angular, 

 with a short, broad wing, a quarter of an inch long, and of a 

 dull brown colour. 



A tree rarely growing more than thirty or forty feet high, ex- 

 cept on the shingly banks of Alpine streams, where it sometimes 

 attains a height of sixty feet, and, according to Dr. Hooker, it 

 forms an inelegant, sprawling, branched tree, with the branches 

 standing out awkwardly, and often drooping suddenly. 



It is found in Bhotan at an elevation of from 6,000 to 9,000 

 feet, but dwarfed at the latter place by elevation. In Sikkim, 

 and in the valleys of Eastern Nepaul, close to the snow line, it is 



