. Veitch's manual of the coniferae : containing a general review of the order, a synopsis of the species cultivated in Great Britain, their botanical history, economic properties, place and use in arboriculture, etc . i-sli, at firstpubescent, with recklish brown bark changing to grey-brow^n with leavestrigonous, keeled on the lower side, rigid, acute, 1—1-5 inch long, palegreen. Staniinate flowers shortly stipitate, globose-cylindric with paleyellow anthers. Cones ovoid-cylindric, obtuse, 1—15 inch long andnearly an inch in diameter; scales suborbicular, entire or slightly erose;bracts produc
. Veitch's manual of the coniferae : containing a general review of the order, a synopsis of the species cultivated in Great Britain, their botanical history, economic properties, place and use in arboriculture, etc . i-sli, at firstpubescent, with recklish brown bark changing to grey-brow^n with leavestrigonous, keeled on the lower side, rigid, acute, 1—1-5 inch long, palegreen. Staniinate flowers shortly stipitate, globose-cylindric with paleyellow anthers. Cones ovoid-cylindric, obtuse, 1—15 inch long andnearly an inch in diameter; scales suborbicular, entire or slightly erose;bracts produced into elongated, exserted bristle-like tips as long again asthe scale. Larix occideiitalis. Nuttall, Sylva, III. 1-13, t. 120 (lSi9). Hoopes, Evergreens,253. Kegel in Gartenfl. XX. 103, with tig. Gordon, Pinet. ed. II. 176. Sargeutin Gard. Chron. XXV. (1886), p. 652, with tig. ; and Silva. X. Amer. XII. 11,t. 594. Macoun, Cat. Canad. Plants, 475. Beissner, Xadelholzk. 314, with in Jonrn. R. Hort. Soc. XIV. 218. li. aniericana breviiblia. Carriers, Traite Coiiif. ed. II. 3.)7. Finns Nuttalli. Parlatore, D. C. Prodr. XVI. 412. Eng. Western Larch. Amer. Tamarack. (Jerm. Westamerikanische Fig. lOi. Fertile branchlet of Larix occidenUdis.(From tlie (kirdcncrs Clironicle.) The habitat of the Western Larch is for the most part restrictedto the ])asin of the upper Cohimbia river and its tributaries inthe States of Oregon, Washington, northern ^Montana and Idaho,crossing into soutliern Britisli Cohimbia to the mountains east ofLake Shuswap, and finding its northern limit at about ° N. It nowhere forms pure forests of any extent, but isscattered over the region mixed with Hemlock, Spruce and DouglasFirs and other trees in the valleys and lowlands, and growing mostlyin the deep alluvial soil of river sides it only occasionally ascends thedrier mountain sides at elevations of 2,500 to 5,000 feet. It attainsits largest si>^e along tlie streams which flow
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