LXXVII. CONI/FERE: LA‘RIX. 1053 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves 2-rowed, linear, flat, of the same colour on both 
sides ; sharply 2-toothed at the apex. Crest of the anthers 2-hormed. Cones 
oval; scales trapezoideo-cordate ; 
bracteoles roundish, emarginate, 
irregularly crenulate. (D. Don.) 
Leaves 3 in. long. Cone 43 in. 
long, 32in. broad, of an intense 
purple. A large tree. Kamaon. 
Height 80 ft. to 100 ft. Intro- 
duced in 1837, 
Professor Don observes that P 
Pindrow is liable to be confounded 
with P. Webbidna; but that the 
former is readily distinguished from 
the latter by its longer and acutely 
bidented leaves, of nearly the same 
colour on both surfaces; and by 
its shorter and thicker cones, with 
trapezoid-formed scales, and rounded y* 
notched bracteoles. 1971. 2. Pindrom. 
£ 16. P.Na’prua Hort. The Naptha Pine. 
Plants were raised in Knight’s Nursery in 1840. Closely resembles P. 
cephalonica, but is without the twist in the petioles of the leaves. 
Genus IV. 
Ala Fale 
LA‘RIX Tourn, Tue Larcu. Lin. Syst. Monce‘cia Monadélphia. 
Identification. Tourn. Inst., 586.; Bauh. Pin., 493. ; Bellon. Arb. Conif., p. 23, 25. 
Suponymete Pinus of Lin. and others; A’bies Rich. ; Meléze, Fr.; Lerch Ger.; Larice 
ta 
Derivation. From Jar, fat, Celtic ; the tree producing abundance of resin. 
Gen. Char. The same as in Abies ; but with the cones ovate-conical, erect, 
and the carpels and bracteas adherent to the axis. Leaves annual, and dis- 
posed in groups. 
Leaves simple, in alternate fascicles, exstipulate, deciduous; linear. Flowers 
reddish or yellowish. Trees deciduous, some of them of large dimensions ; 
natives of the mountainous regions of Europe, the West of Asia, and of 
North America ; highly valued for the great durability of their timber. The 
common larch is found extensively on the alpine districts of the South of 
Germany, Switzerland, Sardinia, and Italy ; but not on the Pyrenees, nor 
in Spain. The Russian larch (Z. e. sibirica) is found throughout the 
greater part of Russia and Siberia, where it forms a tree generally inferior 
in size to L. europea. The black, or weeping, larch (Z. americana pén- 
dula) is a slender tree, found in the central districts of the United States ; 
and the red larch (Z. americana ribra), also a slender tree, is found in 
Lower Canada and Labrador. In Britain, all the species are ornamental ; 
but the first is the only one at all deserving of culture as a timber tree. 
) 
G 
¥ 1, L. EuRopz#‘A Dec. The European, or common, Larch. 
rdentification. De Cand. Fl. Fr., No. 2064. : 
Cee Pinus Larix Lin. Sp. Pl. 1420.; Avbies Jin. Hort. Cliff? 450.; Larix decidua Mill. 
‘Dict. No. 1.; Larix folio deciduo, &e. Bauh, Hist. 1. p. 265.3 Larix Bauh. Pin. p. 493. ; Abies 
Larix Lam. Jilust, t. 785. f. 2.; Meléze commune, Fr.; Lorche, Lorcher-Fichte, gemeiner Ler- 
chenbaum, Terbentinbaum, Europiische Ceder, weisser Lerchenbaum, Ger. AN ; 
Engravings. N. Du Ham., 5. t.79., f. 1.; Lamb. Pin., ed. 2., 2. t. 48. ; the plates of this tree in 
Arb. Brit., Ist edit., vol. viii. ; and our fig. 1972. 
