THE liAECH. 171 



Laeix Eueop.^la. rubra, Endlicher. 

 The Red-flowered Common Larch. 



Laeix Europ^ea axba, Endlicher. 

 The White-flo-wered Common Larch. 



There are other varieties to be found in nurserymen's lists, 

 but which are of only trivial account, such as Larix Europsea 

 laoea, the loose-headed Larch, the Larix Europsea compacta, 

 the compact-headed Larch, and Larix Europsea, Killermanii, 

 a dwarf monstrosity, with remarkably thickened branches, 

 densely clothed with leaves. 



No. 3. Larix Griffithii, Hooher, the Sikkim Larch. 



Syn. Abies GrifSthiana, Lindley. 

 „ Larix Griffithiana, Hort. 

 „ ,, Sikkimensis, Hooker. 



Leaves deciduous, and growing in scattered bundles of many 

 together, round a central bud, or singly on the young shoots 

 linear, narrow, and longer than those of the Common Larch ; 

 slightly glaucous when young, spreading, and of a beautiful 

 light green, but which, in autumn, before falling off, becomes 

 of a red colour. Cones large, oblong, cylindrical, without 

 footstalks, blunt-pointed, erect, two inches and a half long, and 

 one inch broad, and slightly incurved, reddish-purple when 

 young, and abounding in tears of white resin. Scales rounded, 

 half an inch broad, slightly uneven at the margin, and 

 numerous. Bracteas flat, wedge-shaped, broadest near the 

 base, and nearly as long as the scales, to which they are 

 attached; unevenly notched on the edges, and projecting 

 beyond the lower scales. Seeds angular, with a short but 

 broad wing, a quarter of an inch long, and of a dull brown 

 colour. 



A tree rarely growing more than thirty or forty feet high, 

 except on the shingly banks of Alpine streams, where it 

 sometimes attains a height of sixty feet, and, according to Dn 



