BOTANICON SINICUM 101 
Another Japanese general work on Botany of much higher 
claim than the above-mentioned, was published in 1856, with the 
tite HH A ot So moku dzu setsu, by Inuma Chojun, a pupil 
of Dr. Siebold. But only 20 books of this Japanese Flora japonica 
have been issued. They comprise the first section, Herbaceous 
plants (with the exception of Grasses), wild and cultivated, 
arranged according to the system of Linneus, and accompanied 
with 1215 admirably executed drawings, made from nature and 
answering perfectly all scientific purposes. It has full claim to 
the accuracy of a scientific work. Besides the Japanese name for 
each plant, the Chinese names are also given, if such exist, and 
in many cases we find also the Linnean or popular Dutch 
names added. This work is frequently quoted in Maximowicz’s 
numerous publications on the Flora of Japan. He quotes it (after 
Miquel) with the incorrect title Soo bokf. Ihave heard that in 1875 
a new enlarged edition of the So moku dzu setsu has been pub- 
lished by Tanaka. Dr. Savatier has attempted, with the assistance 
of Franchet, to determine the plants not only of the So moku 
dzu setsu, but also as far as possible those represented on the plates 
of the Hon zo dzu fu. See their ‘‘Enumeratio Plantarum in 
Japonia sponte crescentium,” 1876. " 
I possess also a short but very valuable Japanese treatise on 
Poisonous plants, the #7 3 FE 7K Bt Vu doku so moku dzu 
setsu, illustrated by fine woud-cuts, in two books, with 123 plates. 
This was published in 1827 by the J tein Horticultural Society 
of the province of Owari. 
6. On THE BoTaNniIcaAL KNOWLEDGE OF CorEANs, MancHoos, 
Monaots, AND TIBETANS. 
Tributary to China for ages, Corea at an early period universally 
adopted the Chinese form of civilisation, and it was in Corea that 
the Japanese first became acquainted with the Chinese language, 2 
mode of writing, and literature. Although the Coreans, like the — 
Japanese, possess their own alphabet, there is no national litera- 
ture in their Lipids all oo . works — by Coreans | 
