THE LARCH. 171 



Larix Europ/EA rubra, Endlicher. 

 The Red-flowered Common Larch. 



Larix Europ^ea alba, Endlicher. 

 The White-flowered Common Larch. 



There are other varieties to be found in nurserymen's lists, 

 "but which are of only trivial account, such as Larix Europasa 

 laxa, the loose-headed Larch, the Larix Europasa compacta, 

 the compact-headed Larch, and Larix Europrea, Killermanii, 

 a dwarf monstrosity, with remarkably thickened branches, 

 densely clothed with leaves. 



No. 3. Larix Griffithii, Hooker, the Sikkim Larch. 



Syn. Abies Griffithiana, Lindley. 

 Larix Griffithiana, Hort. 

 Sikkimensis, Hooker. 



Leaves deciduous, and growing in scattered bundles of many 

 together, round a central bud, or singly on the young shoots 

 linear, narrow, and longer than those of the Common Larch ; 

 slightly glaucous when young, spreading, and of a beautiful 

 light green, but which, in autumn, before falling off, becomes 

 of a red colour. Cones large, oblong, cylindrical, without 

 footstalks, blunt-pointed, erect, two inches and a half long, and 

 one inch broad, and slightly incurved, reddish-purple when 

 young, and abounding in tears of white resin. Scales rounded, 

 half an inch broad, slightly uneven at the margin, and 

 numerous. Bracteas flat, wedge-shaped, broadest near the 

 base, and nearly as long as the scales, to which they are 

 attached; unevenly notched on the edges, and projecting 

 beyond the lower scales. Seeds angular, with a short but 

 broad wing, a quarter of an inch long, and of a dull brown 

 colour. 



A tree rarely growing more than thirty or forty feet high, 

 except on the shingly banks of Alpine streams, where it 

 sometimes attains a height of sixty feet, and, according to Dr. 



