. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 289 2^-3 inches long, 1^-2 inches broad; scales triangular, ovate-lanceolate, cordate at the base, emarginate at the apex, woody; bracts ovate-lanceo- late, much smaller than the scales; seeds about 3^3 inch long. Eastern China.—Introduced to England in 1854 and from there to America in 1859. Hardy as far north as Massachusetts. A handsome tree of broad-pyramidal habit clothed with light green fe
. The cultivated evergreens; a handbook of the coniferous and most important broad-leaved evergreens planted for ornament in the United States and Canada. Evergreens; Conifers. ENUMERATION OF CONIFERS 289 2^-3 inches long, 1^-2 inches broad; scales triangular, ovate-lanceolate, cordate at the base, emarginate at the apex, woody; bracts ovate-lanceo- late, much smaller than the scales; seeds about 3^3 inch long. Eastern China.—Introduced to England in 1854 and from there to America in 1859. Hardy as far north as Massachusetts. A handsome tree of broad-pyramidal habit clothed with light green feathery foliage turning to golden-yellow in autumn. It is not doing well on limestone 26. LARIX, MUl. LAKCH Deciduous resinous trees with IMf {\\\\^^^''-^^'^-^/Jk irregularly whorled spreading ^ \ \l (\^\^^ branches and thick furrowed ^\ V^- and scaly bark: leaves linear, in crowded clusters on short spurs except on the leading shoots where they are spirally arranged: flow- 77. Pseudolarix amabUis. ers monoecious; staminate flowers small, globose to oblong, solitary, consisting of numerous short-stalked, spirally arranged anthers; fertile flowers larger, consisting of several or numerous scales, each scale with 2 ovules at the base and borne in the axil of a much longer bract: cone with woody, 2-seeded scales, persistent on the axis; seeds with large, thin wings, ripening the first year; cotyledons 6-8, usually 6. (Larix is the ancient Latin name of the larch-tree.)—About 10 species in the colder regions and on the high mountains of the northern hemisphere. A. Leaves keeled on both sides: bracts of the cones exceeding the scales \. L. Potanini AA. Leaves flat or rounded above. B. Bracts exceeding the scales 2. L. occidentalis BB. Bracts shorter than the scales. c. Under surface of leaves with 2 wliile bands: cone-scales re- flexed at apex 3. Z,. Kaempferi CO. Under surface of leaves without conspicuous white bands, shape very narrow: cone-scales not reflexed at apex.
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