54 Nr. 2. C. H. OSTENFELD and C. SYRACH LARSEN: 
& Kuno have shown that this pilosity of the shoots 
cannot be used as characteristic for the larch at Olga Bay 
as opposed to L. Gmelini, having found on Etorofu examples 
of the latter just as pilose. The cone is long with well- 
rounded cone-scales, giving it a certain superficial resem- 
blance to that of small-coned L. decidua 
or L. sibirica, also to L. Kaempferi; it devi- 
ates to such a marked extent from the 
hitherto-known type ofL. Gmelini, that there 
is warrant for supposing it to be a variety of 
the latter. It is found over a tract of country 
Fig. 16. Lariv Gme- extending from Olga Bay and Vladimir Bay 
lini. Rupr. var. o- southwards through Kirin and the north of 
gensis (Henry) Ostf. __ IT i 
Korea, continuing further on the peninsula, 
& Syrach L. Cone in 
natural size. (from as shown on the map (Naraı, 1911, p. 
Te Se 382, Tozawa & Nakai, 1929). On the 
Febr. 27,1915). north it passes over to typical L. Gmelini, 
the transition zone presumably lying in 
the neighbourhood of Vladivostok, but in such a manner, 
that L. Gmelini extends furthest to the south inland, while 
var. olgensis reaches furthest north along the coast. There 
is even a possibility that some of the large-coned Larix 
found on the coast around the Bay de Castries and the 
mouth of the Amur by Maxımowicz in 1854 ought to be 
classified under this variety. Maximowicz first classified it 
as L. sibirica, but subsequently altered his classification to 
L. Gmelini (Maximowicz: in Bull. Acad. St. Petersburg, XV, 
1857, p. 226; Id., Prim. Fl. Amur., 1859, pp. 393— 394). 
L. G. var. olgensis has been cultivated in Denmark under 
the name of L. koreensis, Rafn, nom. nud., and has been 
shown to possess such good qualities, that the stock is 
being steadily increased (A. OPPERMANN, 1923, p. 273). The 
