144 TSUGA, OR HEMLOCK SPRUCE FIRS 
At the same time it grows here (Radnorshire), and 
continues to grow, slowly it is true, where we have 
planted it, at an altitude of some 700 feet above 
sea-level. 
Its thick-set, short cones, often as broad as long, 
call to mind the shape and appearance of a cone from 
the Japanese Umbrella tree, or a small-fruited Nut 
Pine. If not disqualified from the competition on 
account of its un-Larchy deciduous cone scales, it is 
next on the list to the Larix Griffithii in a size-measure- 
ment contest of Larch cones. It is a tree that for 
any differentiation purposes calls for no further 
comment here than that accorded to it in our Table ; 
and for this reason, that it is so un-Larchy in appear- 
ance by the side of the truer-to-type other Larches, 
It is on account of these differences that it has 
incurred and deserved its prefix Pseudo, or False. 
CHINESE LARCH NOVELTIES 
There are also a few novelties that we can only 
offer the briefest of jog-trot observations upon, that 
are coming, or have very lately come, from Chinese 
regions. Among them are the L. Potaninii—perhaps 
an intermediate form between the L. Lyallii and the 
L. Griffithii—and its affinity, the L. Mastersiana, of 
abnormal-cone-bract fame. A rather dilapidated 
cone of the latter was sent me from Szechuen and 
from near the Chino-Thibetan frontier. It shows 
evidences of a large wedge-shaped bract, overhanging 
the scales, and which in the case of the L. Potaninii‘ 
is represented by asmaller edition of that accessory. 
While the cone of the L. Potaninii measures nearly 
2 in. by 1 in., that of the L. Mastersiana is 1§ in. by 
2 in. in breadth. Others brought to light lately 
are the true Asiatic Dahurica—not the so-called L. 
