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the Larix on the Kurile Islands and Sachalin were not 
constant in colour, but that the bright, green colour could 
also occur (MıyaBE & Kuno: Plate 7; and f. ochrocarpa, 
Wırson 1916). It is possible that the one-year’s shoots of 
the larch in Kamtschatka, the Kurile Islands, Sachalin, 
Fig. 15. L. Gmelini (Rupr.) Gordon. Cones from cultivated specimens. 
Denmark, Forestry Botanical Gardens, Charlottenlund, 1922. (*/s nat. 
size, upper row dry, lower row wet). 
Skantar, other lesser islands, and tracts of coast of the 
mainland, are rather more reddish-brown, and that the 
colour of the female cone is more often red there than 
in other localities, but there is not sufficient basis to 
warrant this larch being classed as a separate variety, and 
still less for the retention of a distinct species, viz., L. 
kurilensis Mayr. 
There is likewise no reason for separating Mayr’s L. 
Cajanderi from L. Gmelini. The “dichter weissgelber, lockiger 
Haarschopf”, which appears simultaneously with the new 
leaves, has the same form as that described for the cone- 
scales of L. Gmelini, and there is no deviation in other 
particulars. Mayr stated that is was found scattered among 
L. Gmelini, along the course of the Lena, from the outlet 
Vidensk. Selsk. Biol. Medd. IX, 2, 4 
