100 Nr. 2. C. H. OSTENFELD and C. SYRACH LARSEN: 
only stands “Nat. of North America. — cult. 1739 by PETER 
GoLLınson”. Thus it appears from the oldest descriptions 
that the tree was to be found in Newfoundland as well 
as in culture. FERNALD in 1915 answered an enquiry from 
the British Museum with regard to L. pendula in New- 
foundland, by sending herbarium specimens (Herb. Brit. 
Mus.) from various localities on the island, but all of them 
distinctly belong to L. laricina, and he knows only one 
species. 
The tree as cultivated in England (CoruLınson, Mill 
Hill), which has been described as Pinus pendula, is posi- 
tively stated as having come from America. We do not, 
however, think that any proof exists of its having been 
found in North America in the wild state. 
Morphologically, it occupies an intermediate position 
between L. decidua, and L. laricina. The type specimen in 
the British Museum gives the length of a cone as 25 mm., 
and two still immature cones are 23 mm. and 19 mm. 
respectively. The immature cones are distinctly reddish- 
mauve, and in this point they resemble L. decidua. The 
lowest cone-scales are larger than those of L. decidua, and 
in this point they show a decided approach to the type 
of L. laricina, as well as in the fact of the cone-scales 
being thicker and brighter than those of the European 
Larch. LAMBERT reproduces material from COLLINSON’s tree 
at Mill Hill (Genus Pinus, 1803, Pl. 36). 
On account of its intermediate position between the 
European Larch and the American Larch and also of the 
fact that it is found in culture, we agree with HENrRy’s 
explanation, wherein he describes it as a hybrid, produced 
in cultivation, between L. decidua and L. laricina (Gard. 
Chron. LVIII, 1915, p. 178). 
