Plex.mon. 1. ABIETIDE^. 3. Larix. 225 



III. 3. LARIX. Pliny. Larch. 



Monoicous. — Male. Ameiit solitary, not racemose ; 

 scales stamenbearing; anther 1, 2-cellecl. — Female. 

 yhnent simple; ovaries 2; stigmata hemispherical, glan- 

 dular, pubescent , scales of the cone imbricate, thin, rounded 

 at the tip, not thickened, nor umbilicated ; cotyledons 5 to 9. 

 — Trees tall, pyramidical ; branches alternate ; buds small : 

 leaves acerose, in bundles, becoming single ; annual or 

 biennial ; flowers terminal, above or lateral. 



Larix Europ(P,a. European larch. 



Cone ovate, oblong, obtuse ; edge of the scales reflex, 

 torn. 



Larix, Ger. em. 1365. 



Pinus Larix, Lin. S. P. 1420. 



Larix decidua. Miller Diet. 



Larix pyramidalis, Salisb. T. L. S. 8, 314. 



Cultivated for timber. 



Tree middling high ; bark thick, v^rinkled ; leaves armual; 

 aments reddish purple. — Wood hard, reddish in the middle, 

 lasting ; charcoal burns slow, used by smiths on the conti- 

 nent ; juice resinous. 



Fam. II. 2. CUPRESSIDE^. 



Flowers umsexnal ; flo?i>er-buds naked. — Male. Ament 

 many- flowered; ica/e^ imbricate, opposite, 1 -flowered ; an- 

 thers 1 or 2, sessile, 2-celled. — Fem. Ament with few scales; 

 scales peltate ; ovary 1 or many on each scale ; stigmata 

 sessile, on the tip of the ovary ; nucida 1-celled, in the en- 

 larged v/oody scales of a galbulus, or the fleshy soldered 

 scales of an arcesthide ; kernel pendulous ; perisperm fleshy ; 

 corculum central, straight ; cotyledons 2 ; radicle above. 



I. 4. JUNIPERUS. Pliny. Juniper. 



Dioicous. — Male. Ament peduncled, 10 to 14-flowered; 

 scales imbricate, 3-sided, pedicelled, peltate; anthers 2 to 4-, 

 2-celled, sessile. — Female. Ame?it sessile, globose; scales 2f 

 fleshy, concave, becoming soldered ; stigmata opening; 

 arcesthide globose, S-seeded ; nucule glandular on the outside. 

 — Shrubs evergreen ; leaves verticillate, long or linear : 

 ament axillary, on the under side of the branches. 



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