HARDY CONIFEROUS TREES loi 



7 feet 6 inches in girth. As will be seen from the 

 illustration, it has a remarkably smooth and fine- 

 scaled bark, which closely resembles that of the 

 American Tamarac, one of the assumed parents. 

 The great variation in the size of the cones is very 

 noticeable, some of these being as small as L. 

 americana and others as large as the common 

 larch. The statement by the earlier writers on 

 conifers that Larix pendula was a native of North 

 America has never been confirmed by any com- 

 petent observer on existing specimens, and only 

 one specimen of larch, the Tamarac [L. americana), 

 is known to exist on the eastern side of the Rocky 

 Mountains. For much valuable information re- 

 garding this, and species of American larch, I am 

 indebted to Mr. Buchanan of Ontario. At Boyn- 

 ton, the property of Sir C. W. Strickland, both 

 the Black and Red American Larches have, in 

 certain situations, done well and attained to large 

 dimensions. 



LIBOCEDRUS, Endlicher 



THE INCENSE CEDARS 



Flowers monoecious ; male catkins cylindrical or nearly 

 so ; females solitary, globular. 



Cones oblong, woody, and composed of from four to six 

 scales, of which the middle pair alone is fertile. 



Scales leathery in texture, face to face in opposite pairs, 

 and furnished with a terminal incurved point. 



Seeds unequally two-winged, singly or in pairs under each 

 scale. 



Cotyledons two. 



Leaves flattened, decussate, in four imbricated rows. 



Large evergreen trees, with flattened branches and scale- 

 like leaves. 



