Crossword-Solution: LARIX 5 letters, 3 clues 🏆 scrabble score: 12

From the south and east it receives the Walla-Walla and Umatilla, rather short and dreary-looking streams, though the plains they pass through have proved fertile, and their upper tributaries in the Blue Mountains, shaded with tall pines, firs, spruces, and the beautiful Oregon larch (_Larix brevifolia_), lead into a delightful region.

That, in strewing their tombs, the Romans affected the rose; the Greeks amaranthus and myrtle: that the funeral pyre consisted of sweet fuel, cypress, fir, larix, yew, and trees perpetually verdant, lay silent expressions of their surviving hopes.

Stacks of different sorts of pine-wood were stored on the flat at its base, for export to Tibet, all thatched with the bark of _Abies Brunoniana._ Of these the larch (_Larix Griffithii,_ “Sah”), splits well, and is the most durable of any; but the planks are small, soft, and white.[160] The silver fir (_Abies Webbiana,_ “Dunshing”) also splits well; it is white, soft, and highly prized for durability.

Extensive tracts of tamarack (_Larix Americana_) may be seen in northern Wisconsin that are dying out, and being succeeded by the balsam fir (_Abies balsamea_), which may be probably caused by the partial drainage of the swamps, from the decay or removal of a fallen tree that had obstructed the outlet." The writer of this work resided for a period of ten years or more in Wisconsin, and during that time traversed extensive portions of its territory, both before and after it became a state.

Which hierogliphis the braunches excepted because I know not whether they were of Firre tree, Pineapple, Larix or _I_uniper, or such like: I thus interpret.