80 Nr. 2. C. H. OSTENFELD and C. SYRACH LARSEN 
gave it a place between L. decidua and L. sibirica. With 
regard to its distribution, he showed that the larch in Tatra 
and Babia göra (West Beskiden) in reality is true L. decidua, 
while on the contrary, the larches found in the wild state 
on the north-east of this locality in Poland all belong to 
the Polish Larch. Its intermediate position between the 
other two European representatives of larch is clearly 
shown by material from its natural habitat, and from 
SzAFER’s analysis of the flowers and cones (SzAFER: |. c. 
Plates I and III). The shape of the cone is strongly remini- 
scent of a small-coned specimen of L. decidua, but the cone- 
scales are more rounded, resembling those of L. sibirica, 
and less emarginate at the free margins than those of L. 
decidua. The cone is truncate like that of L. sibirica, and 
not so pointed as that of L. decidua. The reason for the 
cones being, as a rule, small, may possibly be, that they 
are taken from very old trees. It seems to be a fact that 
the cone of var. polonica is smaller than that of either L. 
sibirica or L. decidua. SzAFER differentiates two types, f. 
typica, and f. pienina, the former of which has completely 
rounded cone-scales, those of the latter having a slight 
emargination, thus resembling L. decidua. He further differ-. 
entiates between two forms according to the colour of the 
flowering cone, namely, f. rubriflora and f. viridiflora, so 
that both colours can occur here just as in the case of 
the European Larch: but the green colour, which is the 
exception with L. decidua, is described as common in the 
case of the Polish Larch. 
As far as it is possible to judge from well preserved 
material and SzaArEr’s detailed treatment, there do not 
appear, however, to be sufficient grounds for maintaining 
it as an independent species, as its close resemblance to 
