LXXVII. CONIFERiE : Z,A RIX. 



1053 



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

 sides ; shai'ply 2-toothed at the apex. Crest of the anthers 2-horncd. Cones 

 oval ; scales trapezoideo-cordate ; 

 bracteoles roundish, emarginate, 

 irregularly crenulate. {D. Don.) 

 Leaves 3 in. long. Cone 4J in. 

 long, 3A in. broad, of an intense 

 purple. A large tree. Kamaon. 

 Height 80 ft. to ] 00 ft. Intro- 

 duced in 1837. 



Professor Don observes that P 

 Pindroiu is liable to be confounded 

 with P. Webb;aa ; 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. ptndrow. 



1 1 6. P. na'ptha Hort. The Naptha Pine. 



Plants were raised in Knight's Nursery in IS-tO. Closely resembles P. 

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



Genus IV. 









LAHIK Town. The Larch. Lin. Si/.tt. Monoe^cia Monadelphia. 



586. ; Bauh. Pin., 493. ; Bellnn. Arh. Conif., p. 23. 25. 



and others ; .li^bies Rich. ; Meleze, Fr. ; Lerchenbaum, Ger. ; Larice 



Identification. Tourn. Inst 

 Synonyntes. Pinus of Lin 



Ital. 

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



Gen. Char. The same as in Ahies ; 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 ; hishly valued for the great durability of their timber. The 

 conmion 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. sibirica) is found throughout the 

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

 in size to L. europae'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. amiricana riibra), also a slender tree, is found in 

 Lower Canada and Labrador. Li 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:'A Dec. The European, or common. Larch. 



Identification. De Cand. Fl. Fr., Ko. 2064. 



Synonymes. Pinus iirlx Lin. Sp. PI. 1420. ; yl^bies Lin Hort. Cliffy 450. ; iarix decidua Mill. 

 Diet. No. 1. ; Larix fblio deciduo, &c. Bauh. Hist. 1. p. 2G5. ; iarix Bauh. Pin. p. 493. ; y4'bies 

 Xarix }.am. lllttst. t. 785. f. 2. ; Meleze commune, Fr. ; Lorche, Lorcher-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 in 

 Atb. Brit, 1st edit , vol. viii. ; and our^i,'. 1972. 



