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PSEUDO-LARIX, OR 



Gen. PSEUDO-LARIX. Gordon. The False or 



Chinese Larch. 



Floivers monoecious, or male and female separate, but on 

 the same plant. 



Cones oblong, pendent, brittle, and, like the head of the 

 common Artichoke, covered with divergent scales. 



Scales very deciduous, extended at the points, heart-shaped 

 at the base, and enclosing at the bottom two soft-coated 

 seeds. 



Seeds irregularly shaped, with a soft, thin, whitish, skin-like 

 covering, more or less enclosed by the wing, but free, and full 

 of turpentine. 



Wings oval-lanceolate on the outer side, but quite straight 

 on the inner one, and entirely covering the inner face of the 

 scale. 



Leaves deciduous, soft, linear, flat, and collected in bundles 

 on the adult plants, but scattered singly along the young shoots, 

 and very long on the young plants. 



Seed-leaves from five to seven in number. 



Name derived from "Pseudo," false, and " larix," the Larch 

 the false or Chinese Larch. 



A noble hardy tree, found by Mr. Fortune in the Central 

 and North-east provinces of China, and very distinct from the 

 European Larches, in the cones having deciduous scales, with 

 divergent points. 



Pseudo-lamx K^mpferi, Gordon, the Golden or Chinese 



Larch. 



- Syn. Larix Kcempferi, Fortune. 

 Abies Ksempferi, Lindley. 

 Pinus Kcempferi, Lambert. 



Leaves in bundles on the adult branches, and singly on the 

 leading shoots and young plants, very slim, linear-lanceolate, 

 tapering to the point, and quite deciduous ; from one inch and 

 a half to two inches and a half long, and rather more than one 



