CEDARS. LARCH 153 



impression of terraces or tiers of foliage (see p. 14). This 

 terracing is even more marked in the stiffer spray of 

 Cedrus Libani and C. atlantica. Bark dark grey, tinged 

 with reddish-brown or purplish shades, and fissured and 

 eventually scaly. Although the conical or pyramidal - 

 pointed form is longest preserved in C. Deodara, it is, 

 like C. atlantica from North Africa, merely a variety of 

 C. Libani, the differences in their leaves, cones,- &c. being 

 insufficient to separate them ; but in the last named the 

 lower branches rapidly extend in succession, many are 

 cast, and the rest form limbs which branch horizontally 

 and display the spray in flat terraces as the crown rounds 

 off (Fig. 6). 



Deciduous tree, with reddish-grey scaly 

 bark and very light open crown. Foliage 

 of narrow acicular bright green leaves -, 

 in tufts of 30 40 as in Cedrus, but 

 cast annually, leaving peculiar tubercle- 

 like knobs on the slender branches; the 

 latter few and more or less pendent, 

 not displaying the spray in tiers. Cones 

 small. Resinous tree. 



Larix europcea^. Larch (Figs. 67,68). Tree eventually 

 up to 100 feet and more in height, pyramidal-pointed, but, 

 long before attaining full height, losing the pyramidal 

 form, owing to the lengthening of the upper shoots to 

 equal the lower, and to rounding off at the apex. 



The straight stem bears an open crown with sparse 

 foliage, spreading or reflexed knotted branches, ending in 

 up-turned shoots and bearing numerous slender pendent 

 shoots. Foliage intensely green in early summer, then 

 darker, in tufts of numerous leaves. Bark scaly and 

 fissured, grey tinged with pink. Old cones small, brown 

 and woody: young ones crimson. Male flowers yellow- 

 green. 



