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1. ABXETIDEzE. 3. Larix. 
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III. 3. LARIX. Pliny. Larch. 
Monoicous. — Male. Ament solitary, not racemose ; 
scales stamenbearing; anther 1, 2-celled. — Female. 
Ament simple; ovaries 2; stigmata hemispherical, glan- 
dular, pubescent, scales of the cone imbricate, thin, rounded 
at the tip, not thickened, nor umbilicated ; cotyledons 5 to 9. 
— Trees tall, pyramidieal; branches alternate; buds small : 
leaves acerose, in bundles, becoming single ; annual or 
biennial ; flowers terminal, above or lateral. 
Larix Eur opera. European larch. 
Cone ovate, oblong, obtuse; edge of the scales reflex, 
torn. 
Larix, Ger. em. 1365, 
Pinus Larix, Lin. S. P. 1420. 
Larix decidua. Miller Diet. 
Larix pyramidalis, fialisb. T. L. S. 8, 314-. 
Cultivated for timber. 
Tree middling high ; bark thick, wrinkled ; leaves annual; 
aments reddish purple. — Wood hard, reddish in the middle, 
lasting ; charcoal burns slow, used by smiths on the conti- 
nent ; juice resinous. 
Farm II. 2. CUPRESSIDEAS. 
Flowers unisexual ; flower-buds naked. — Male. Ament 
many- flowered; scales imbricate, opposite, 1 -flowered ; an- 
thers 1 or 2, sessile, 2-celled. — Fem. Ament with few scales; 
scales peltate ; ovary 1 or many on each scale ; stigmata 
Sessile, on the tip of the ovary ; nucula 1-celled, in the en- 
larged woody scales of a galbulus, or the fleshy soldered 
scales of an arcesthide; kernel pendulous; perisperm fleshy; 
corculum central, straight ; cotyledons 2 ; radicle above. 
I. 4. JUNIPERUS. Pliny. Juniper. 
Dioicous. — Male. Ament peduncled, 10 to 14-flowered ; 
scales imbricate, 3-sided, pedicelled, peltate; anthers 2 to 4, 
2-celled, sessile. — Female. Ament sessile, globose; scales 3, 
fleshy, concave, becoming soldered ; stigmata opening; 
arcesthide globose, 3-seeded; nucule glandular on the outside. 
— Shrubs evergreen ; leaves verticillate, long or linear ; 
ament axillary, on the under side of the branches. 
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