48 Nr. 2. C. H. OSTENFELD and C. SYRACH LARSEN: 
Maxımowicz, Fr. SCHMIDT, WILSON, MIYABE & Kuno, 
Okana, and others. Beyond varying in its form of growth, 
L. Gmelini evinces certain modifications in other particulars, 
but never to such an extent as to warrant their not being 
included under one species within the limits adopted in 
the present paper; it must, nevertheless, be regarded as 
one of the most variable species 
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of the genus Larix. 
The cones may vary in size 
from quite short (1 cm. or less 
Fig. 14—15) to almost double 
the size (2 cms.), but all possess 
the characteristic straight cone- 
scales, not incurved, but rather 
sligthly recurved, truncate or 
Fis: 14 L 
Gmelini. (Rupr.) 
Gordon, small coned (so-called 
L. kurilensis 
from cultivated tree. Denmark, 
Egelund plantation 1923. (Nat. 
Mayr). Cones 
size, upper row dry, lower 
emarginate at the free edge. The 
straight cone-scales give the cone 
a characteristic appearance of 
lightness, specially pronounced 
row wet.) in the case of dried specimens. 
The one-year’s shoots vary from reddish-brown to light 
coloured, and their degree of pilosity, often very pronounced, 
varies likewise, and may be completely absent. Reddish- 
brown and distinctly pilose shoots are stated by Mayr as 
being characteristic for the larch on the Kurile Islands, 
and this was generally accepted, until the exhaustive 
investigations of MıyaBE & Kuno (1920, p. 24) showed that 
this fact alone did not warrant the differentiation between 
the larch on the Kurile Islands an that on Sachalin. Mayr 
also described the larch on the Kurile Islands as possessing 
purple-red female cones when flowering, but MıyABE & Kuno, 
in common with Wırson, have shown that the flowers of 
