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and shed in small plates, sometimes very thick, at the base of 

 old trees. Branches of young trees dense, short, compact ; of old 

 trees long, spreading ; all drooping at the trunk with upturned 

 points. Young terminal shoots grey or yellowish, furrowed, 

 without down, those of the second year roughened by the cushion- 



Fig. U.—LARIX EUROPE A. 



a, two short shoots and two cones ; 6, young cone and long shoot (in May) ; c, part of shoot with 

 leaf and leaf-bases ; d, inner face of cone scale, showing young seeds ; e, young cone scale and biact, 

 side view ; /, bract ; g, mature cone scale and seeds. 



like leaf bases of the previous year. Short shoots dark brown or 

 almost black, marked with as many rings as they are years old, 

 the younger rings downy. Terminal winter buds of long shoots 

 globose, short-pointed, with many brown, pointed scales. Lateral 

 buds shorter, blunter. Buds of short shoots small, rounded. 



