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LARIX EUROPJ3A. 



var. pendula. 



This is recognised in two forms : In one the trunk is short and 

 divided near the top into several secondary stems that are bent 

 downwards, as are the branches and their appendages.* In the other, 

 the branches are spreading and even ascending at the distal end, 

 whilst the branchlets, usually very slender and much elongated, are 

 quite pendulous. 



Fig. 99. Larix europcea pendida. 

 (From the Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



L. europtea pendula, London, Arb. et Frut. Brit. IV. 2351. 

 Regel in Gartenn. XX. 101 (1871). 



L. decidua ; pendula r 



* One of the most remarkable specimens of this form of the pendulous Larch is at 

 Henham Hall, Suffolk, the seat of the Earl of Stradbroke ; in this tree the branches are 

 excessively developed at the expense of the trunk, and cover a space 100 feet long and 

 63 feet wide. 



