256 THE BOOK OF EVERGREENS. 



that towards the north, like the Siberian Larch, which, 

 according to Pallas, does not entirely disappear, until it 

 reaches 68 north latitude. 



" We, as well as Mr. Thunberg, have found it in the 

 Fakone Mountains, where it grows either isolated or in 

 small groups, in company with other Conifers, as well as 

 with Oaks and Beeches. As to its exterior, it in every 

 respect resembles our European Larch, from which, how- 

 ever, it is readily distinguished by its cones being more 

 rounded, and with a much greater number of scales, 

 which are smaller, and turned back at the margin." 



The great number of synonyms attached to this species 

 plainly shows the perplexity diiferent authorities have 

 found in assigning it its true position. Murray states that 

 he at first supposed the Larix Japonica was only a lesser 

 variety of this, but he is now convinced that he was not 

 warranted in so doing, and that L. Japonica is a distinct 

 species. 



9, L, Lyalli, Pallatore in Gard. Chronicle. "A tree 

 found on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, in the 

 Cascade and Galton Ranges, by Mr. Lyall, at about 49 

 1ST. lat., and at an elevation above the sea of between 6,000 

 and 7,000 feet. A remarkable species because of the cob- 

 web-like wool that clothes the leaf buds and young shoots, 

 and the long fringe of the scales of the former. The tree 

 grows from 36 to 45 feet high, and is therefore much 

 dwarfer than the allied L. occidentals, which is also dif- 

 ferent in the number of leaves in a cluster, their direction 

 and form, and in the cones." 



8. PSEUDOLARIX, Gordon. FALSE LARCH. 



Cones, oblong, erect. Scales, divergent, extended at the 

 points, heart-shaped at the base, very deciduous. Seeds, 

 irregularly shaped, with a soft, thin, whitish, skin-like 



