1054 ARBORETUM ET FRUTICETUM BRITANNICUM. 
Spec. Char., §c. Leaves fascicled, deciduous. Cones ovate-oblong ; scales 
reflexed at the margin, Jacerate ; bracteoles panduriform. Leaves linear, 
soft, lin. long, Cone from lin. to 1 in. long, erect. A tall, pyramidal, 
deciduous tree, Alps of the South of Europe. Height 80 ft. to 100 ft. In 
cultivation in Britain since 1629. Flowering in March or April ; and ripen- 
ing its cones in the autumn of the same year. 
Varieties, All the larches in cultivation are, probably, only different forms of 
the same species ; but, as the American larches, which have small fruit, 
come tolerably true from seed, we shall treat them as one species, and the 
European larch as another. The latter is characterised by large cones, rapid 
growth, and robust habit ; and the former by small cones, slow growth, and 
slender habit, 
¥ L.e. 1 comminis Laws. Man. p. 386.— Branches “ aspiring towards 
their points ; branchlets very numerous, and forming a dense conical 
or pyramidal top; foliage of a light grassy or vivid green ; and bark 
rather more rugged than that of L.e. 2 laxa.” 
¥ L.e. 2 léxa Laws. |. c.—“ True specimens of this variety may easily 
be distinguished from the others when in nursery rows, by their 
more rapid growth, more horizontal and less crowded branches, and 
by the darker green, or somewhat glaucous, colour of the foliage.” 
t L. e. 3 compacta Laws. |. c.—“ In habit of growth, the tree is conical 
or pyramidal, like the common larch ; but its branches are very brittle, 
or easily broken from the trunk ; numerous, horizontal, or slightly 
bent down near the base; aspiring afterwards, and the larger ones 
are finally erect towards the point, with pretty regularly verticillate 
branchlets ; towards the centre of the tree, however, these are pen- 
dulous, and remarkably thickly interwoven with one another.” 
¥ Lie. 4 péndula Laws. |. c.—* Distinguished by the very pendulous 
habit of its branches, which somewhat resemble those of L. ameri- 
cana péndula; from which, however, it differs in the greater length 
of its leaves, and the larger size of its cones.” A native of the Ty- 
rolese Alps.—L. ¢. péndula Godsallii Gard. Mag. vol. xv. p. 549., 
and the figure there given, is a sub-variety ; or, more probably, identi- 
cal with this variety. It was selected by Mr. Godsuall from a bed of 
seedlings of the common larch.—L. e. répens Laws. 1. c. is another 
sub-variety. The branches spread along the ground to a great dis- 
tance. A tree at Henham Hall, Suffolk, planted about 1800, at 
the height of 8 ft. sends out its branches horizontally, and these, 
being supported, extend north and south over a covered way more 
than 80 ft. in length, and 16 ft. in width. Another branch extends 
to the west about 8 ft.; and on the east the branches droop to the 
ground and form a perfect curtain, as they do also on the west side. 
(See Gard. Mag., vol. xv. p. 626.) 
¥ L. ¢.5 flore rubro Hort. Trans. iv. p. 416.—The flowers vary in 
shade of red or pink, and some of them are more or less mixed with 
yellow. The cones are also red, or reddish yellow. The majority 
of the trees in the Duke of Athol’s plantations at Dunkeld and 
Blair have red flowers. 
£ Lie. 6 lore dlbo. Larch‘from the Tyrol, with white Flowers, Hort. 
Trans. 1. c.— The leaves of this variety are not different from those 
of the common larch ; but the shoots are said to be much stronger ; 
and the cones white, as well as the flowers. 
£ L. e. 7 sibirica. L. sibirica Fisch. ; ? L. archangélica Laws. Man. 
p- 389.; ZL. réssica Sab. in Hort. Soc. Gard.; Pinus L. sibfrica 
Lodd. Cat.; the Russian Larch, Hort. Trans. iv. p- 416.— There 
are trees of this variety in the Duke of Athol’s plantations, raised 
from seeds procured from Archangel in 1806. The appearance of 
the tree is said to be coarser than that of L. e. communis. It is of 
much slower growth than the larches of the Tyrol ; and the leaves 
