LARIX LYALLT. 



Larix Lyalli. 



399 



A tree usually 40 50 and occasionally 70 feet high with a trunk 

 18 20 inches but sometimes 3 4 feet in diameter, and remote, elongated, 

 piniiately-divided branches that are sometimes decidedly pendulous, sometimes 

 abruptly ascending at the extremities. Bark of old trees dark brown, 

 0*75 1 inch thick, divided by shallow fissures into irregularly-shaped plates. 

 Buds conspicuous from the long white matted hairs which fringe the 

 margin of their scales. Branchlets short, coated with thick hoary 



Fig. 103. Fertile branchlet of Larix Lyalli. 

 (From the Gardeners' Chronicle.) 



tomentum which does not disappear till after the second winter. Leaves; 

 tetragonal, rigid, pale blue-green, 1 1*5 inch long. Staminate flowers 

 cylindric, about an eighth of an inch long, with pale yellow anthers. 

 Cones ovoid, 1 '5 2 inches long, sub-sessile ; bracts dark purple, 

 exserted, with slender tips, much larger than the oblong-obovate thick 

 scales which are erose at the margin and fringed with white hairs 

 that are also scattered over their lower surface. Seeds with a light 

 red wing broadest near the base. Sargent, Silva of North America,. 

 XII. 15, t. 595. 



