. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. ore suggestive ofvarious species of the Pacific slope than arethose of any other eastern species. Its wood is light, soft, brittle, coarse-grainedand of a pale reddish brown color with thicklighter sap-wood. A cubic foot, when abso-lutely dry, weighs lbs. It is little usedexcepting for fuel and Leaves in crowded clusters of 2, ;with short persistent sheaths, stout, sless twisted, with 2 flbro-vasciilar 1resin-ducts in parenchyma ; branchlitsbrown and rough. Flowers: stanii
. Handbook of the trees of the northern states and Canada east of the Rocky mountains. Photo-descriptive. ore suggestive ofvarious species of the Pacific slope than arethose of any other eastern species. Its wood is light, soft, brittle, coarse-grainedand of a pale reddish brown color with thicklighter sap-wood. A cubic foot, when abso-lutely dry, weighs lbs. It is little usedexcepting for fuel and Leaves in crowded clusters of 2, ;with short persistent sheaths, stout, sless twisted, with 2 flbro-vasciilar 1resin-ducts in parenchyma ; branchlitsbrown and rough. Flowers: staniiuatloose clusters ; the pistillate long-stalked, lateraland generally in whorls of 2 to r> or more. Conesshort-ovoid, 8-4 in. long, lateral and in whorlsupon the branchlet, oblique at base, sessile andwith scales, especially those of the outer side nearbase, much thickened, with prominent transverseridge and armed with a strong flat curved prickle ;seeds rounded triangular, nearly V4 in. long, andwith wings broadest near the center. 1. A. W., XII, 298. 4 in. Ion:ff, more oruidlos and?;hort. dark. p ^Sf \ ?, mR ^ :% S^S?* ? Lf* ^nftnfl iij-- 1 1 1 1 1 J TAMARACK. EASTERN LARCH. Larix Americana Miclix.^
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