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Vioht sylvestris y. (jrijpoeeras Maxim, in I\Iel. l'>i<>l. TX. p. 743. 

 Viola llciclienbdcliiana Francli. et Sav. 1. c. I. |). A:!, rion Junlan. 

 Viola lotu/epedunciilafa Francli. et 8av. 1. c. IT. yt. 280. 

 Viola sj/lvatica Kanitz Anthopli. Jap. p. -2'), noii Fries. 

 Viola sylvatica var. imherbis A. Gray l)ut. dap. [i. 382. 

 Viola Grayi Francli. et Sav. 1. c. II. p. 288. 

 Viola liiviniava Francli. et Sav. I. c. I. ]>. A?>, 'mn Rficlib. 

 Norn. Jap. Yahv-fntriiire, incln-tsiihosninire. 

 Hah. Japan. 



Very coninion and variable ]ilant. widely di-^trilmted over Japan. A 

 wliite-flowered form is sometimes met with. 



Viola (Nominiinm) acuminata licdcl). Fl. Pu^ss. I. p. 252 ; Walp. 

 Repert. II. p. 7G6 ; l^Iaxim. Prim. FI. Amur. p. 50 ; Reore] Tent. Fl. Ussur. 

 p. 25; Fr. Schni. Ileis. im Amur. n. Ins. Saclial. p. il5; Hance in Journ. 

 Bot. 1875, p. 131; Francli. PI. David. I. p. 44; de P,niss. in Bull. Sec. 

 Bot. de Fr. XL VII. p. 322. 



Viola canina var. acuminata Ileii^el PI. Iladd. I. p. 247 ; IMaxim. 

 in Mi'd. Pdol. IX. p. 74G, et Fnuni. PI. Mongol. I. p. 80; Forbes et 

 Hemsl. in Jonrn. Linn. Soc. XXIII. )•. 52 ; Korsli. in Act. Hort. Petrop. 

 XII. p. 310; Miyabe Fl. Kuril. Isl. p. 219; Palib. Consp. Fl. Kor. I. 

 p. 31. 



Viola laciniosa A. Gray in Perry's Exped. Jap. ]>. 308, et Bot. Jap. 

 p. 382 ; Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 43, et II. p. 289. 



Viola micrantha Turcz. 



The following description is made from the specimens collected on 

 Mt. Kobotoke-toge in the boundary of prov. Musashi ;uid Kai, and it is of 

 smaller size than the examples of the northern Ja[)an. 



Caulescent, about 10-11 cm. high in flower; rhizome short, erect or 

 oblique, densely rooting. Stems aliout 2 to 3, erect, foliiferous throughout, 

 terete, glabrous, light green, purple below, 13-3 mm. across. Leaves 

 alternate, ovato-cordate, shortly acuminate with an obtuse tip, with an 

 opened sinus, crenate or creiiato-serrate, glabrous above, pubescent on the 

 nerves beneath, 18-40 mm. long, 17-32 mm. wide in flower, the inferior 

 ones diminished in size and often })ur[»lisli beneath ; veins 4-5 on each side, 

 incumbent-arcuate, the lowest one 1 ranched at the base on the outside; the 

 petiole longer or shorter than the blade, narrow, glabrous, attaining abnit 

 4| cm, in length ; stipules shorter than the petiole, erect, free, but the 



