PSEUDOLARIX 



PSEUDOTSUGA 



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grafted on its own roots or on the common Larch, as it 

 is sometimes done, it rarely ^I'ows into a symmetrical 

 tree. Pseudolarix is known wild only from a restricted 

 region in N. China, where it grows in the mountains at 

 an altitude of about 3,000 ft. It is closely allied to 

 Larix, but differs by the stalked, pendulous^ clustered, 

 staminate fls. and by the deciduous cone-scales, which 

 separate from the axis at maturity as in the fir. 





2006. Pseudolarix Kaempferi (.X}4). 



Kaempieri, Gord Fig. 2006. (Ldrix Kampferi, Fort. 

 Laricdpsls Kwmpferi, Kent). Tree, becoming 130 ft. 

 high: Ivs. linear-acuminate, soft, light green, bluish 

 green beneath, 13^-3 in. long and 1-1% lines broad: 

 staminate fls. yellow, about % in. long, slender-stalked; 

 pistillate fls. about % in. long: cone ovate, reddish 

 brown, 25^-3 in. long, l%-2 in. broad; scales triangular, 

 ovate-lanceolate, cordate at the base, emarginate at the 

 apex, woody: bracts ovate-lanceolate, much smaller 

 than the scales, each scale with 2 seeds with the wings 

 as long as the scale. F. S. 17:1777-78. R. H. 1868:331; 

 1871, p. 608. 609. G.C. II. 19:88. Gn. 8, p. 325; 29, p. 397. 

 — Var. nana, Beissn. Dwarf form, cult, in China and 

 Japan; without much decorative value. 



Alfred Rehdeb. 



PSEUDOPHCENIX (Greek, false PJicenix) . Palmdcew. 

 A genus of one species, a pinnate-leaved palm discov- 

 ered in 1886 on one of the Florida Keys and distinguished 

 from all other North American palms by its scarlet- 

 orange fruit, which is about the size of a cherry. This 

 palm is cult, in S. Calif. Generic characters: female 

 fl. with calyx small, spreading, somewhat denticulate; 

 petals 3, ovate, obtuse, green, bent back; staminodia 6, 

 distinctly dark purple at the top: fr. an orange-colored 

 drupe, stipitate, containing 1-3 globular carpels. 



Sdrgenti, H. Wendl. Trunk slender, 20-25 ft. high, 

 10-12 in. thick: Ivs. abruptly pinnate, 4-5 ft. long; 

 pinnae lanceolate, acuminate, 12-16 in. long, bright green 

 above, glaucous beneath, folded backward at the very 

 base: spadix appears from among the Ivs.; main and 

 secondary branches light yellow-green and flattened : 

 fr. usually 3-lobed, l4-% in. thick, bright orange-scarlet. 

 FloridaKeys. G.F. 1:353. S.S. 10:506. 



F. W. Barclay. 



PSEUDOTStTGA (Greek false Tsnga). Con! ferae. 

 Tall evergreen trees, of symmetrical pyramidal habit, 

 with regularly whorled branches clothed with linear flat- 

 tened Ivs., which are more or less 2-ranked and whit- 

 ish beneath: fls. forming orange or reddish catkins: 

 cones pendulous, medium - sized, of somewhat bristly 

 appearance on account of the protruding bracts. The 

 Douglas Spruce, which is the only species well known 

 in cultivation, is one of the tallest and most important 



forest and timber trees of western North America, and 

 in its forms of the higher altitudes it is hardy as far 

 north as Canada. When it finds a congenial home it is 

 among the most desirable conifers for park planting 

 and it grows rapidly. It thrives best in a porous sandy 

 loam, and its cultivation does not differ from that of 

 Abies and Picea, which see. Varieties may be grafted 

 on the type. 



The genus has three species in W. N. America and in 

 Japan. Pyramidal trees, closely allied and very similar 

 in foliage to Abies, from which they are chiefly distin- 

 guished by their cones falling off as a whole at maturity, 

 like those of Ficea. The Ivs. contain but one fibro-vas- 

 cular bundle and are not decurrent at the base. The 

 bracts of the cone are rather large and more or less ex- 

 serted, 2-lobed at the apex, with the midrib produced 

 into a subulate awn. Without cones the genus may Ije 

 distinguished from Abies by its more slender and flexi- 

 ble Ivs., and especially by its elongated ovate or ovate- 

 lanceolate acute and not resinous winter-buds. Tlie 

 light red or yellow wood is hard and durable and much 

 used for construction, for railway ties and for masts. 

 The bark is sometimes used for tanning leather. 



Doiiglasii, Carr. (P. miicron&ta, Sudw. P. taxifblia, 

 Britt. P. JLutdletjana, Carr. Abies JJouglasi, Lindl. 

 Abietia Douglasii, Kent). Douglas Spruce. Keu 

 F'iR. Fig. 2007. Pyramidal tree, attaining 200 ft. and 

 sometimes more, with a trunk becoming 12 ft. in diam. 

 clothed with ridged dark red-brown bark : branches 

 horizontal, with pendulous branchlets : Ivs. linear, 

 straight or curved, obtuse, slender and flexible, dark 

 green or bluish green, %-1/i in. long : staminate cat- 

 kins orange, pistillate reddish: cones pendulous, oval- 

 ovate, with broad rounded scales and much exserted 

 bracts, 2-4)^ in. long; seed % in. long, with broad 

 wing, light reddish brown. Brit. Col. to Mex., west to 

 Mont, and Colo. S.S. 12:607. G.F.]0:295. Gn.31,p.288. 

 R.H. 1868:151. — The most important of theformsin cul- 

 tivation are the following: Var. compdcta, Beissn. Of 

 dense compact habit. Var. fastigiata, Carr. (var. spar- 

 sifdlia, Carr.). Dense conical pyramid with numerous 

 ascending branches and with shorter Ivs. Var. glauca, 

 Beissn. With bluish green or almost silvery white foli- 

 age. Hardier than the type, but of slower growth : from 

 Colorado. This form is best adapted for cultivation in 

 the eastern states. Var. glailca p6ndula, Beissn., has 

 pendulous branches and glaucous foliage. Var. glauc68- 

 cens, Beissn. {P. gfZa?<c^scews, Bailly), is hardly different 

 from var. glauca. R.H. 1895:88. Var. p6ndula, Neum. 

 With pendulous branches and dark green foliage. Var. 



2007. Douglas Spruce— Pseudotsuga Douglasii (X 1-5). 



Stalrii, Gord. With whitish variegated foliage; of little 

 ornamental value. Var. taxifdlia. Loud. Of slower 

 growth, forming abroad dense pyramid, with longer and 

 darker green Ivs. and the cones with shorter bracts. 



