1904.J 



OBSERVATIONS ON THE FLORA OF JAPAN. H5 



Miq., which is very common in Japan, begins to blossom ; it is larger in 

 size than that of Miquel's variety. 



Diplachne fascicularis (Lam.) Beauv. Agrost. p. 80, tab. 16, fig. 

 9 ; Rtem. et Schult. Syst. Veg. II. p. 614 ; Spreng. Syst. Veg. I. p. 351. 



Festuca fascicularis Lam. Tab). Encyc. I. p. 189 ; Steud. Syn. PI. 

 Gram. p. 313. 



Leptochloa fascicularis A. Gray, Man. Bot. ed. 5, p. 623; Wood, CI.- 

 Book Bot. p. 803, et Am. Bot. et Fl. p. 406, non Griseb. 



Festuca polystachya Michx. Fl. Bor. Am. I. p. 66 ; Pers. Syn. PI. I. 

 p. 94; Willd. Enum. Hort. Bot. Berol. p. 117. 



Leptochloa polystachya Kunth ' Rev. Gram. I. p. 91 ' ; Id. Enum. PL I. 

 p. 271, et Suppl. I. p. 223, tab. 16, fig. 2 ; Chapm. Fl. S. Un. St. p. 559. 



Festuca aquatica Bosc, ex Ruem. et Schult. Syst. Veg. II. p. 615. 



Festuca mullifora Walt. ' Fl. Carol, p. 81.' 



Festuca procurabens Muehl. ' Desc. Gram. p. 160.' 



Bromus poaeformis Spreng. ' Nachr. I. Bot. Gard. Halle, p. 15 ; Fl. 

 Hal. Mant. p. 34,' non Forsk. nee Vahl. 



Nom. Jap. Hama-gaya (nov.). 



Hab. Prov. Ise : Coast of Yokkaichi (Y. Uyematsul Sept. 12, 1903, 

 July 29, 1904). 



Introduced. A North-American grass. 



Rynchospora (Haplostylaa) nipponica Makino sp. nov. 



About 5 decim. or more high. Culm erect, concealing with leaves, 

 except the upper portion, triquetrous with smooth edges, green, the upper 

 portion narrower and passing to the rachis at the top. Leaves : cauline 

 ones close, concealing the sheath long, triangular, truncate in the mouth ; 

 lamina exceeding the inflorescence, linear, gradually attenuatedly acuminate, 

 smooth- margined but scabrous towards the apex, chartaceous, delicately carinate 

 beneath, 3 decim. or more long, 5-6 mm. wide ; main veins 3-5 on each side. 

 Corymbs forming a terminal and few axillary sphaerical or hemispherical 

 many-spiculose heads, which are interruptedly spicately disposed on the rachis 

 and about li cm. in diameter ; rachis triquetrous with smooth edges, green, 

 straight ; bracts patent-reflexed, slenderly linear, gradually acuminate, triquet- 

 rous towards the apex, scabrous-margined, delicately carinate beneath, not 

 vaginate, the lowest one largest and about 14 cm. long, the superior ones 



