TAMARACK; LARCH (Larix Americana, Michx.). 50 to 60 

 feet. Slender, regularly pyramidal tree, with weak, horizon- 

 tal branches. Bark thin, broken into reddish-brown scales. 

 Wood heavy, hard, brown, durable in soil, resinous, used for 

 telegraph poles, ties, ships' timbers, and for fuel. Leaves nar- 

 row, about 1 inch long, keeled below, clustered on knob-like 

 side spurs, scattered on end shoots, turning yellow, deciduous 

 in early autumn. Flowers monoecious; staminate in squat, 

 yellow knobs; pistillate in erect, oval cones, purplish pink, 

 with finger-like bracts; both scattered along last season's 

 shoots, along with fascicles of new leaves. Fruits brown, oval 

 cones, of few thin, broad, unarmed scales; seeds winged, shed 

 during second season. Dist. : Swamps and mountain slopes, 

 Newfoundland to Rocky Mountains; south into Minnesota, 

 Illinois, Indiana, and Pennsylvania. 



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