54 Illustrations of Conifers. 



LARIX DAHURICA (Turczaninow). DAHURIAN LARCH. 



Veitch's Man. Conif. ed. 2, p. 890 (1900). 



Trees of Great Britain and Ireland, Vol. II. p. 879 (1907). 



A TREE which attains in Saghalien a maximum height of 150 feet, with a 

 straight slender trunk and a more or less irregularly-branched crown. 

 Bark exfoliating in thin plates. Branches and branchlets slender, 

 glabrous, shining-brown in the second year. Leaves narrowly linear, 

 about an inch long, pale green. 



Cones variable in size, ovoid or sub-globose, f - 1 inch long, com- 

 posed of four to six rows of rounded or truncate bevelled scales which 

 are longer than broad, about \ inch long, glabrous and shining light 

 brown ; bracts much shorter than the scales. Seed together with 

 its wing nearly inch long. 



This larch occurs in eastern Siberia, Manchuria, Korea and the 

 island of Saghalien. It was first described by Aiton in 1789 under the 

 name of Plnus pendula and was introduced in 1739. 



There is a good specimen at Bayfordbury planted in 1840 which 

 has attained a height of 56 feet and 5 feet in girth. 



