e 
The Species of the Genus Larix. 
cultivated trees show the same characteristic type of cone, 
the colour of the cone when flowering varying from tree 
to tree from red through pale pink to green; the shoots vary 
Fig. 17. L. Gmelini var. olgensis (Henry) Ostf. & Syrach L. Cones from 
cultivated specimens’. Roden forest in Denmark 1922 (*/s nat. size, two 
upper rows wet, two lower rows dry). 
from pale to a light chestnut-brown, the majority at all 
events appearing to be smooth. The oldest examples known 
in Denmark are to be found in a plantation, Roden Forest, 
near Aalholm (Lolland), already mentioned in the preface. 
1 The method of photography in this illustration differs from that 
adopted in most of the others, and the specimens are, therefore, not 
well suited for comparison with figs. 16 and 18. 
