THE LARCH AND CYPRESS 



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Other characters: The fruit is a small cone about 

 I alf an inch lon^, adhering to the tree throughout the 

 winter. 



Comparisons : The tree 

 is apt to be confused with 

 the American larch, also 

 known as tamarack and 

 hackmatack, but differs 

 from it in having longer 

 leaves, cones twice as 

 large and more abundant 

 and branches which are 

 more pendulous. 



The larch differs from 

 the bald cypress in the 

 broader form of its crown 

 and the cluster-like ar- 

 rangement of its leaves. 

 The leaves of the bald 

 cypress are flat and feath- 

 ery. The larch and bald 

 cypress have the common 

 characteristics of both 

 shedding their leaves in 

 winter and preferring to 

 grow in moist or swampy 

 soils. The larch, especi- 

 ally the native species, 

 forms the well-known 

 tamarack swamps of the 



north. The bald cypress grows in a similar way in groups 

 in the southern swamps. 



Fig. 17.— The Bald Cypress. 



