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cultivation in this country, it wearing, even in very favourable 

 situations, a by no means prepossessing appearance. The 

 branches are stiff and horizontally placed, and the foliage 

 rather sparsely produced and irregular of arrangement, some- 

 times scattered, sometimes two-ranked. Each leaf is broad, 

 flat, sabre-shaped, i inch long, deep green above, and lighter 

 beneath. The cones are produced singly at the branch tips, 

 stand half-erect, are 6 inches long by ij inches wide, cylin- 

 drical, and with long-persistent scales, the bracts being shorter 

 than these. 



LARIX (Miller). 



THE LARCHES. 



Flowers monoecious ; male catkins egg-shaped ; females 

 erect, solitary, ovate. 



Cones somewhat cylindrical. 



Scales leathery, persistent and undulated. 



Bracts mostly lanceolate, longer or shorter than the scales. 



Seeds without resin canals, with a leathery covering, and 

 furnished with an oblong membranaceous wing. 



Cotyledons five to eight, three-cornered, flat. 



Leaves deciduous, tufted or singly, linear, soft. 



Large growing deciduous trees, with the leaves arranged 

 either singly or in bundles. 



Larix davurica, Fischer. Siberia. Neither in an or- 

 namental nor economic sense can this be recommended for 

 planting at all extensively. It does not thrive well, the 

 growth usually being short, and the tree having a starved 

 and stunted appearance. 



L. europsea, De Condolle. Common Larch. {Syno- 

 nyms : Pinus LariXy Linnaeus ; Larix excelsa. Link ; Larix 

 decidua, Miller; Abies Larix, Poiret ; Larix pyramidalis, 

 Salisbury.) Central Europe and Northern Asia. Prior 



