LXXVII. CONI'FERJE: LA V RIX. 



1053 



Spec. Char., fyc. Leaves 2-rowed, linear, flat, of the same colour on both 



sides ; sharply 2-toothed at the apex. Crest of the anthers 2-horned. Cones 



oval ; scales trapezoideo-cordate ; 



bracteoles roundish, emarginate, 



irregularly crenulate. (D. Don.) 



Leaves 3 in. long. Cone 4f in. 



long, 3i in. broad, of an intense 



purple. A large tree. Kamaon. 



Height 80 ft. to 1 00 ft. Intro- 

 duced in 1837. 



Professor Don observes that P 

 Plndrow is liable to be confounded 

 with P. Webbidna ; but that the 

 former is readily distinguished from 

 the latter by its longer and acutely 

 bidented leaves, of nearly the same 

 colour on both surfaces ; and by 

 its shorter and thicker cones, with 

 trapezoid-formed scales, and rounded 

 notched bracteoles. 1971. p. pindrow. 



5 16. P. NA'PTHA Hort. The Naptha Pine. 



Plants were raised in' Knight's Nursery in 1840. Closely resembles P. 

 cephalonica, but is without the twist in the petioles of the leaves. 



GENUS IV. 



LA V RIX Tourn. THE LARCH. Lin. Syst. Monce^cia Monadelphia. 



Identification. Tourn. Inst., 586 ; Bauh. Pin., 493. ; Bellon. Arh. Conif., p. 23. 25. 



Synonymes. Plnus of Lin. and others ; A^bies Rich. ; Meldze, Fr. ; Lerchenbaum, Ger. ; Larice 



Ital. 

 Derivation. From lar, fat, Celtic ; the tree producing abundance of resin. 



Gen. Char. The same as in A bies ; but with the cones ovate-conical, erect, 

 and the carpels and bracteas adherent to the axis. Leaves annual, and dis- 

 posed in groups. 



Leaves simple, in alternate fascicles, exstipulate, deciduous; linear. Flowers 

 reddish or yellowish. Trees deciduous, some of them of large dimensions ; 

 natives of the mountainous regions of Europe, the West of Asia, and of 

 North America ; highly valued for the great durability of their timber. The 

 common larch is found extensively on the alpine districts of the South of 

 Germany, Switzerland, Sardinia, and Italy ; but not on the Pyrenees, nor 

 in Spain. The Russian larch (L. e. sibfrica) is found throughout the 

 greater part of Russia and Siberia, where it forms a tree generally inferior 

 in size to L. europas'a. The black, or weeping, larch (L. americana pen- 

 dula) is a slender tree, found in the central districts of the United States ; 

 and the red larch (L. americana riibra), also a slender tree, is found in 

 Lower Canada and Labrador. In Britain, all the species are ornamental ; 

 but the first is the only one at all deserving of culture as a timber tree. 



* 1. L. EUROP^A Dec. The European, or common. Larch. 



Identification. De Cand. Fl. Fr., No. 2064. 



Synonymes. Pinus iarix Lin. Sp. PI. 1420. ; yTbies Lin. Hort. Cliff. 450. ; 7,arix decidua Mill. 

 Diet. No. 1. ; arix folio decfduo, &c. Bauh. Hist. 1. p. 265. ; 7,arix Bauh. Pin. p. 493. ; /Tbies 

 iarix Lam. lllust. t. 785. f. 2. ; Meldze commune, Fr. ; Lorche, J^orcher-Fichte, gemeiner Ler- 

 chenbaum, Terbentinbaum, Europaische Ceder, weisser Lerchenbaum, Ger. 



Engravings. N. Du Ham., 5. t. 79., f. 1. ; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 2. t. 48. ; the plates of this tree io 

 Arb. Brit, 1st edit , vol. viii. ; and our fix- 1972. 



