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Chimaphila maculata (L.) Pursh. Not rare. 
Stachys palustris, L. Not common. 
Blephilia hirsuta (Pursh.) Benth. Not rare. 
' inothera biennis, L. Very common. 
Mimulus alatus, Ait. Not rare. 
Rhus glabra, L. Common. 
Flypericum prolificum, L. Just coming into flower. Not common. 
Phryma Leptostachya, L. Rather common. 
Circea Lutetiana, L. Common. 
Pycnanthemum incanum, Michx. Not rare; just coming into 
flower. 
Campanula Americana, L. Common. 
Asclepias tuberosa, L. Rare. 
Penthorum sedoides, L. Common. 
Silphium trifoliatum, L. Rare. 
Reviews of Foreign Literature. 
Iconographia Flore Japonice or Descriptions with Figures of 
Plants Indigenous to Japan. By Ryokichi Yatabe (Vol. 1. 
Part 1. 66 pp., large Svo. 20 Plates, Tokyo, 1891). 
This work, of which we have here the pleasure of announcing 
the first part, is the most important contribution yet made to the 
knowledge of Japansese plants. The author states in his prefa- 
tory note: “As there exists no book containing the figures and 
descriptions of all the plants known to be indigenous to Japan, I 
intend, in the following pages, to supply this want. Although 
some friends of mine have promised their contributions, it 
will, nevertheless, require a number of years to complete the 
work. The specimens to be figured will be chiefly obtained from 
the Botanic Garden'and Herbarium of the Imperial University, 
and will include both Phanerogamic and Cryptogamic plants. 
The figures will serve, moreover, as illustrations to a compendi- 
ous flora of Japan for the use of students, which I am now pre- 
paring.” The descriptions are given in detail in both English 
and Japanese. The illustrations are beautiful outline drawings, 
showing the habit of the plants, and their floral and fruit struc- 
ture. Many of the species recently first described in the Bulle- 
tin of the Tokyo’s Botanical Society are here figured. N. L. B. 
