TAMARACK; LARCH (Larix Americana, Michx.). 50 to 60 feet. Slender, regularly pyramidal tree, with weak, horizon tal branches. Bark thin, broken into reddish-brown scales. Wood heavy, hard, brown, durable in soil, resinous, used for telegraph poles, ties, ships' timbers, and for fuel. Leaves nar row, about I inch long, keeled below, clustered on knob-like side spurs, scattered on end shoots, turning yellow, deciduous in early autumn. Flowers moncecious; staminate in squat, yellow knobs; pistillate in erect, oval cones, purplish pink, with finger-like bracts; both scattered along last season's shoots, along with fascicles of new leaves. Fruits brown, oval
cones, of few thin, broad, unarmed scales; seeds winged, shed during second season. Dist.: Swamps and mountain slopes, Newfoundland to Rocky Mountains; south into Minnesota, Illinois, Indiana, and Pennsylvania.