130 LARIX; OR THE LARCHES. 



the young shoots, three-quarters of an inch long, and like those 

 of the Common Larch in shape, but longer, darker in colour, 

 and arising from shorter buds. Branches, few, remote, long, 

 pendulous, and in whorls ; branchlets also thinner, and more 

 pendulous than the branches. Cones, ovate, roundish, erect, 

 three-quarters of an inch long, and easily detached from the 

 branches. Scales, rounded, loose, largest near the base, and 

 with the margin entire, and curved inwards. Seeds, small and 

 short- winged. 



A medium-sized straggling-headed tree, with a stem seldom 

 more than one foot and a half in diameter, and with few 

 branches, which are long and pendulous, and thinly covered 

 with branchlets; 



It is found on the mountains of North America, particularly 

 in Canada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the coldest and 

 gloomiest exposures in the mountainous tracks of Virginia, where 

 it is called by the inhabitants ' Tamarack,' or Black Larch, and, 

 according to Michaux, is considered among the most valuable 

 of timber. 



