PINUS LARIX. 
White Larch Tree* 
For JJlass, Order, Gen. Char. Sec. 
see PiNus Sylvestris. 
Spec. Char. Leaves tufted, deciduous. Cones ovate, ob- 
long; the margins of their scales reflexed, jagged. Scales 
of the Female catkin fiddle-shaped, prominent in the full- 
grown cone. 
The long, slender, pendent branches, and the whitish bark 
readily distinguish the larch from the preceding species of pine. It 
is a native of the higher regions of Italy, Switzerland and Germany, 
and has also been found in Siberia. It has been cultivated in 
England since the year 1629, and is now extensively planted in 
Scotland ; as an ornamental tree it is likewise to be found in most 
shrubberies throughout Europe. 
The larch, like most of the pine tribe, is of quick growth, and rises 
to the height <,f fifty or sixty feet; the branches are wide-spreading, 
and drooping at their extremities, being too slender to support the 
weight of their leaves ; the leaves are deciduous, slender, soft, of a 
bright green colour, and placed in tufts or bundles ; the male and 
female flowers are placed separately on the same branch ; the cones 
are small, erect, ovate, about an inch long, of a reddish brown 
colour when ripe, and covered with obtuse scales, from which the 
bracteal leaves appear. 
The Terebinthina Veueta (or more properly Larigna, as we are 
supplied with it, not from the Venetian States, but from New Eng- 
landf) issues spontaneously through the bark of this tree; but is more 
commonly obtained by wounding the bark at the distance of about 
two feet from the ground, and inserting into the wound a small 
canula, through which the turpentine flows into proper vessels placed 
for its reception. 
* Fig. b. represents the cone or strobile when ripe. a. and c. Scales of a female 
catkin. 
+ It is not certain that the New England turpentine is the produce of the Pinus Larix J 
the genuine liquid resin of this tree is best obtained from France and Germany. 
