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Family Coniferae — Part 2

Genus LARIX Adans.

TALL pyramidal trees, with few horizontal branches. Leaves linear, deciduous; fascicled except on new shoots. Flowers solitary, monoecious, naked. Fruit annual, woody cones, solitary, erect and sessile on the twig. Wood hard, heavy, resinous.