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known to liira by the material in the Herb. Imp. Univ. and by refer- 

 ences. Under cacli species a short account on ifr : distribution in the 

 eastern Asia is given. He declares the close relationships of the floras of 

 Japan, Corea and Manchuria, and prospects many interesting species from 

 the untrodden northern Corea. 



B, II a. y at a: On a Rhus of Formosa, (vol. XVIII. No. 206. miscell.). 

 Barter was the only way by which the aborigines of Formosa obtained the 

 salt from the Formosans. When a quarrel took place between them the 

 latter used to suspend the supply of the salt which resulted a great affliction 

 to the former. Lately the aborigines became quite indifferent without 

 the importation from Formosans. Looking after the cause they found 

 that the former learned to get a salty soup by dipping the seeds of Kims 

 semiaJata, var. Roxburgii DC. in water. 



Y. Yaise: Note on the Flora of Tsushima, (vol. XVIII. No. 203. 

 pp. 85-S8). In this article the author remarked the brief geographical 

 characters of the Tsushima Island, the history of the botanical surveys on 

 the island, and the general aspect of the vegetation. A table shows the 

 distribution of 637 wild species collected by the writer, which were already 

 enumerated in the preceding issues under the heading of " Florida Tsusi- 

 mensis." He considers the floras of Japan and Corea have close relation- 

 ship one another and the Tsushima Island just proves the linkage between 

 them. He, however, found on the island only three plants indiginous to 

 Corea, viz. Sisymbrium Maximowiczii, Cariopteris Mast racanthus and Rho- 

 dodendron davricum. This circumstance, he believes, is due to the incom- 

 plete study of the flora of the island. 



Y. Yabe: On a New Genus Arcterica. (vol. XVIII. No. 212. Miscell). 

 Mr. Fr. Coville established a New genus Arcterica from a frasmiental 

 specimen collected on Bering Island by Dr. Stejneger. The description is 

 in the Botanical Gazette, vol. 37. No. 4., with full of interesting accounts. 



Among the collection of the flowering plants which Dr. Yendo brought 

 from Shimushu Island, the northern most* islet of the Kuriles, Yabe 

 found a plant which was satisfactorily applicable to Andromeda nana, 

 Maxim. {Pieris nana, Makino). The species was first described by Maxi- 

 mowicz in 1872 from a plant collected on a mountain in the province of 

 Pukuchu, Japan. It is quite common plant on the higher peaks in Honshu 

 as well as in Hokkaido. 



