180 THE FOREST LANDS OF FINLAND. 
and 2 feet in diameter, about five feet from the ground, 
with wood of excellent quality. By the students of the 
School of Forestry the Siberian larch has been of late 
transplanted into the most differing parts of the country, 
and has more especially been cultivated at Evois. 
The European larch (Z. Europaea D.C.) has also, though 
not indigenous, been planted within the last 40 or 50 
years, and is found in different places in small forest 
masses, as, for example, in the woods belonging to the 
manufactories of Fiskars and others. Transverse sections 
of trunks, and a slip of wood from Fiskars (60° 8’) were 
exhibited at Moscow ; a section from Svarta in the same 
latitude (60° 8’) was exhibited, it was of a tree 14 years 
years in age, 15 feet high, and 5 inches in diameter; and 
there was exhibited from Evois (61° 15’) of a tree of the 
same age, 14 years, 16 feet high, and 8'1 inches in diameter. 
The juniper (Juniperus communis L.) grows everywhere 
throughout the country, generally as a bush, but some- 
times as a small tree. At Moscow was exhibited a section 
from Evois (61° 15’), of a tree 40 years old, 2°5 inches in 
diameter, and another from Pallila (60° 32’), 150 years old, 
46 feet high, and 7 inches in diameter, and a slab of the 
same tree. 
The yew (Taxus baccata L.) is found in the Aland 
Islands, but only there, ordinarily as a bush, but some- 
times, though more rarely, as a small tree. 
Section B,—Broap-LEAVED TREES. 
a 
In regard to broad-leaved trees indigenous in Finland 
we learn from the Statistical Notes by Dr Ignatius :— 
‘The birch (Betula alba), of which there are in Finland 
. two varieties very similar to each other, and often con- 
founded— Betula verrucosa and Betula glutinosa—forms 
forests of considerable extent, especially on grounds pre- 
