THE LARCH. 177 



A splendid pjrramidal tree, 150 feet high, with rather short 

 branches, the lower ones being nearly horizontal or slightly- 

 declining, the upper ones more or less ascending, and the 

 young shoots glabrous, and furnished with numerous round, 

 blackish buds. 



It is a native of north-west America, on the Kocky Moun- 

 tains, and along the Columbia River, at an elevation of from 

 5000 to 6000 feet. 



No. 10. Labix pendula, Salisbury, the Black American 



Larch. 



Syn. Abies pendula, Lmdley. 

 „ Larix Americana pendula, London. 

 „ „ nigra, Hort. 

 „ Pinus pendula, Aiton. 

 „ „ laricina, JDuroi. 



„ Larix nigra. Marsh. 



Leaves deciduous and either in bundles of many together, or 

 single on the young shoots, three-quarters of an inch long, and 

 like those of the Common Larch in shape, but longer, darker 

 in colour, and arising from short buds. Branches few, remote, 

 long, pendulous, and in whorls. Branchlets also slender, and 

 more pendulous than the branches. Cones ovate, rounded at 

 the ends, erect, easily detached from the branchlets, and three- 

 quarters of an inch long. Scales rounded, loosely imbricated, 

 largest near the base, entire on the edges, and curved inwards. 

 Seeds small, with short wings. 



A medium-sized, straggHng-headed tree, with a stem seldom 

 more than one foot and a half in diameter, and with few 

 branches, which are long, pendulous, and thinly furnished with 

 branchlets. 



It is found on the mountains of North America, particularly 

 in Canada, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and the coldest and 

 gloomiest exposures in the mountainous tracts of Virginia, 

 where it is called by the lumberers " Hackmatack " and " Tama- 

 rack," and Black Larch. 



