388 The Trees of Great Britain and Ireland 



At Dunkeld there is a tree planted close to a common larch, from which 

 seedlings were raised at my suggestion by the late D. Keir, which appear to be 

 hybrids between the two species.^ His son, who succeeded him as forester to the 

 Duke of Atholl, and who has watched the growth of these seedlings, considers them 

 to be intermediate between the two species ; but it is yet too soon to be certain. 



At Abercairney, Perthshire, the seat of Col. Drummond Moray, there is a tree, 

 raised from seed brought from Japan in 1883, which, measured by Henry in 1904, 

 was 38 feet by 3 feet 5 inches. At Blair Drummond, in the same county, he 

 measured ten trees planted in 1888, one of which was 44 feet high, and the average 

 girth 2 feet 5 inches. They were all healthy though growing among common larch 

 which was diseased.' 



At Cullen House, Banffshire, Mr. Campbell tells me that there is a tree 45 feet 

 by 3i feet. At Kirkennan, near Dalbeattie, Kircudbrightshire, two larches sown in 

 1885 were in 1904 41 feet by 2 feet and 35 feet by i foot 11 inches. We are in- 

 debted for this information to the owner Mr. W. Maxwell. 



In Germany at Schloss Liitetsburg, it seems to have grown faster than with us, 

 for it is stated ^ that trees thirty-five to forty years old are 1 7 to 20 metres high, with 

 a girth at i metre of 1.80 to 2.70 metres. (H. J. E.) 



LARIX GRIFFITH II, Sikkim Larch 



Larix Griffithii, J. D. Hooker, ///. Himal. PL t. 21 (excl. ff. 1-4) (1855), Flora Br. India, v. 655 

 (1888), and Gard. Chron. xxv. 718, f. 157 (i886); Masters, Gard. Chron. xxvi. 464, f. 95 

 (1886); Kent, VeitcKs Man. Coniferm, 395 (1900); Gamble, Indian Timbers, 720 (1902). 



Larix Griffithiana, Carrifere, Conif. 278 (1855). 



Abies Griffithiana, Lindley and Gordon, _/<?/-. Hort. Soc. v. 214 (1850). 



Pinus Griffithii, Parlatore, DC. Prod. xvi. 2, p. 411 (1864). 



A tree, attaining in the Himalayas about 60 feet in height, with thick brown 

 bark, and wide-spreading, long and pendulous branches. 



Young branchlets, reddish, covered with a dense wavy, more or less appressed 

 pubescence, and girt at the base by a sheath of the previous season's bud-scales, the 

 uppermost of which are very broad, loose, membranous, and reflected. Branchlets 

 of the second year very stout, dull reddish brown, pubescent. Short shoots broad 

 and stout, fringed above by very large, loose, reflected, pubescent, membranous 

 bud-scales. Terminal buds broadly conical, non-resinous, with pubescent scales. 

 Lateral buds ovoid, pointing outwards and forwards, non - resinous, pubescent. 

 Apical buds of the short shoots conical, with loose pubescent scales. 



Leaves light green in colour, about i^ inch long, ending in a short rounded 

 point ; upper surface rounded or flat, with one or two broken lines of stomata near 

 the apex ; lower surface deeply keeled with two bands of stomata, each of three 



' Cf. Trans. Roy. Scot. Arbor. Soc. xviii. 62 (1905). 

 " Mitt. Deutsche Dend. Ges 1906, p. 29. 



