132. TSUGA, OR HEMLOCK SPRUCE FIRS 
Carolina, reads in description very similar to that of 
the Diversifolia, of which it is the American repre- 
sentative. Sometimes difficulties of recognition have 
a way of clearing a way for themselves. <A deus ex 
machina steps in and lends us his aid. In this case 
its rare presence and so far diminutive size (it was 
introduced in 1886) seldom give the tree-hunter a 
chance of any spectacular illumination. Its cones 
at maturity have a habit of expanding widely, and 
this is a noticeable peculiarity among its kind. Its 
leaves, too, if they fulfilled the function attached to 
them of being only minutely notched or even mu- 
cronate, ought to be another aid of research in these 
directions. 
LARCHES 
(OF THE NATURAL ORDER OF CONIFERZ, oF THE 
FAMILY PINACE/, oF THE TRIBE ABIETINEA, 
OF THE SUB-TRIBE LARICE) 
Such a green gown God gives the larches, 
As yreen as He is good. 
E, NEssir. 
Tue Larch as a tree is too serious a subject for the 
commercial-minded to rhapsodize over in any abstract 
flights of poetry. It is too much of a business pro- 
position for those engrossed in occupations of other 
ultimate aims, to spend time in musing over the 
fresh green gown that God gave it, or the invigorating 
freshness of its early spring attire. The primates of 
song, on the whole, have left it alone as an imaginable 
noun of composition, and fought shy of it as an 
expression for their flights in air. Tennyson talks 
of it as perky, “‘ There amid perky larches and pine,” 
among which, we read further, stood a new-built 
mansion of an upstart millionaire, whose walls held 
