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No. 7. Larix Lyallii, Parlatore, Mr. Lyall's Larch. 



Leaves on the branchlets in bundles of from 40 to 50, erectly 

 spreading, curved, narrow, linear, blunt-pointed, rather soft, 

 and three-quarters of an inch long, and about a quarter of a 

 line broad; those on the young shoots are single and much 

 longer. Branches nearly horizontal, with the young shoots 

 and buds densely clothed with a whitish cobweb-like wool. 

 Buds on the branchlets oval-globose, with the perula or scaly 

 covering very short, imbricated, and of a brownish colour, and 

 with the margins of the scales fringed with a long, cobweb- 

 like wool. (Full-sized cones unknown.) Young cones solitary, 

 somewhat reflexed, sessile, oblong, blunt-pointed, and two 

 inches long, and one inch broad. Scales numerous, loosely 

 imbricated, somewhat cartilaginous, nearly orbicular, rounded 

 or subemarginate at the ends, rather convex on the back, and 

 with a ciliated or fringed margin. Bracteas elliptic, crenated 

 on the edges, with the middle nerve prolonged into an awl- 

 shaped point longer than the scale. Seeds small, with the 

 wings the same length as the scales. 



A pyramidal tree, growing from 3G to 45 feet high, in north- 

 west America, on the eastern slope of the Rocky Mountains, 

 in the Galton Range, and Cascade Mountains, at an elevation 

 of from 6000 to 7000 feet. 



This is a very remarkable species, on account of the cobweb- 

 like wool that clothes the leaf-buds and young shoots, and the 

 long fringe of the scales that surround the buds. 



No. 8. Larix microcarpa, Lambert, the Red American Larch. 

 Syn. Larix Americana rubra,, Loudon. 

 Americana, Michaux. 

 tenuifolia, Salisbury. 

 Fraseri, Curtis. 

 Abies microcarpa, Lindley. 

 Pinus microcarpa, Lambert. 

 Larix rubra, Harsh. 



Leaves jdeciduous, in bundles of many together, round a 



