This wood, which is also called Tamarak, is found in North America, from Newfoundland to Virginia, where it attains a height of nearly 100 feet. Michaux describes the American larch as a tall slender tree, with a trunk 80 or 100 feet high, and only 2 or 3 feet in diameter. Its numerous branches except near the summit are horizontal, or declining. The bark is smooth and shining on the truuk and large branches, but rugged on the smaller branches. The leaves are flexible and shorter than those of the European species. The wood is said to be nearly equal to that of the European larch, "being exceedingly strong and singularly durable."

528. American Red Larch (Larix microcarpa) is also a native of North America; its growth is comparatively diminutive, and hence it is of less value and service than the common larch. Trees of this species in the Duke of Athole's plantations in Scotland have been found at fifty years' growth to contain only about one-third as many cubic feet as the common European larch.

* Nordlinger's ' Technical Properties of Woods.'