174 LAKIX, OR 



round a central bud, but sometimes singly on tbe leading 

 shoots and young plants, deciduous, soft, spreading at the 

 points, slightly recurved, and of a beautiful light green ; from 

 three-quarters to one inch and a quarter long. Branches 

 nearly cylindrical, smooth, yellowish-gray -when young, very 

 spreading, horizontal, and in regular whorls. Branchlets 

 slender, mostly drooping, and thickly covered with bundles of 

 leaves. Cones ovate, rounded, blunt at the ends, terminal and 

 numerous on the ends of the small, short branchletSj remain- 

 ing on the trees after the seed is shed for years, and about the 

 size of those of the Common Larch. Scales numerous, alter- 

 nate, thin, flat, imbricated, upper part rounded, jagged, re- 

 flected, undulated, and almost reduced to a thin membrane, of 

 a grayish-brown colour, and drawn to a point at the base. 

 Bracteas lanceolate, acute, very entire, membranaceous, dry, 

 and shorter than the scales. Seeds almost three-sided^ with 

 wings four or flve lines long, blunt at the ends. 



This kind closely resembles the Common Larch, but differs 

 from it in having more rounded cones, with slenderer and more 

 numerous scales, undulated and torn on the upper margins, and 

 in being altogether a more slender tree. 



A tree 40 feet high, found on the Fakone Mountains, in the 

 Island of Nippon, and on the Island of Jezo, in the north of 

 Japan. It is cultivated by the Japanese in pots, which, in 

 some instances, are priceless ; hence its Japan name (Kin-t'sian- 

 soung), Money Pine. 



The Japanese call this tree " Fus-ji ") buds crowned with 

 leaves), and " Fusi Matsu " (pine full of buds), also " Eax-jo- 

 sjo" (common deciduous fir), and the Chinese call it "Kara- 

 mats," which also means a pine full of buds, or one with 

 knotty branchlets. 



It is found at as high an elevation as 9000 feet, on the sacred 

 mount, Fusi-Yama, in Japan, where it becomes a mere shrub, 

 two feet high. 



