THE LAECH. I73 



No. 5. Laeix JjEDEboueii, Ruprecht, the Altaian Larch. 

 Syn. Larix Altaica, Fischer. 



„ „ Pseudo-Larix, Loddiges, 



„ „ intermedia, Zawson, 

 „ Archangelica, Lawson. 



„ „ rossiea, Sabine. 



„ „ decidua rossiea, Henh. 



„ „ Sibirica, Ledebour, not Fischer. 



„ „ Europsea Sibirica, Loudon. 



„ Abies Ledebourii, Ruprecht. 



„ Pinus Ledebourii, Endlicher. 



„ „ Larix, Pallas. 



„ „ Pseudo-Larix, Steudel. 

 Leaves single, or in bundles of many together round a cen- 

 tral bud, but mostly single on the leading shoots and young 

 plants, soft, linear, broad, and rather flat on vigorous young 

 plants, but on older ones rather four-sided, obtuse, and with 

 much longer and broader foliage than the Common Larch, and 

 darker green. Branches robust, but not numerous, and pen- 

 dent. Cones very small, erect, slender, and rather loose. 

 Scales oval, with the margins entire, convex^ and persistent. 

 Seeds very small. A tall, luxuriant tree, similar to the Com- 

 mon Larch in appearance, but with very much smaller cones, 

 and much longer and broader foliage, growing from 80 to 100 

 feet highj at elevations of from 2500 to 6000 feet^ on the Altai 

 Mountains, in Siberia. — This is the Eussian or Archangel Larch 

 of the nurseries, and the Russian name for it is " Listvennetsa " 

 (crown of leaves). 



No. 6. Laeix l^tioJj&is, Siebold, the Slender-scaled Japan Larch. 



Syn. Larix Japonica, Carri^re. 

 „ Abies nodosa (" Fusi-matu "), Japanese. 

 „ Pinus nummularia (" Kin-t'sian-soung "), Japanese. 

 „ „ leptolepis, Endlicher. 

 „ „ Larix, Thunberg. 

 Leaves linear, blunt-pointed, in bundles of many together 



