JAPANESE BOTANICAL LITERATURE. 



K. Yendo. The Fucaceae of Japan (Journ. of the CoUege 



of Sc, Imp. Univ., Tokyo, Japan, Vol. XXI, Art. 12, 1907. 



pp. 174 with 18 plates.) 



After short introductory remarks the author treats the 

 "distribution of Fucaceous algae on the coast of Japan," in 

 which he enumerates Sargassum setaceum, pinnatiBdum, tosa- 

 ense, kashhvajimanum, kushimotense, ilicifoHum var. duphca- 

 tum, cristae folium, gramini folium, sagamianum, and nipponi- 

 cum as the plants peculiar to the Pacific side and Sargassum 

 fulvellum, confusum, conf f validum, Thunbergii f nipponica, 

 Miyahei, Cystophyllum coespitosum, Coccophora Langsdorfi 

 and C. imperata peculiar to the Japan Sea side. 



The main part of the work following these topics is oc- 

 cupied by minute descriptions of each species, many of which 

 are illustrated with elaborate plates. The following are 

 either new or more or less emended species or varieties. Pelvetia 

 Wrightii Harv. emend., f typica, f. Babingtonii Hary., f 

 japonica, Cystophyllum hakodatense sp. nov., Cypt. caespito- 

 sum sp. noY., Turbinaria {1 ) fusiformis (Hary.) {= Cystophyl- 

 lum fusiforme Hary.) and f clavigera (Harv), Coccophora 

 {? ) imperata sp. nov., Sargassum piluliferam var. pinnatifolium 

 var. noY. (=5. pinnatifolium Ag.), S. setaceum Yendo, S. 

 patens var. schizophylla Yendo, S. tosaense Yendo, S. kashi- 

 wajimanum Yendo, S. kushimotense: Yendo, S. tortile f 

 macrocarpa Yendo, 5. Kjellmanianum Yendo and f muticus f. 

 noY., S. confusum f valida Yendo, S. Miyabei sp. noY., S. 

 Thunbergii O Kunze f typica nom. nov., f laHfolia, f nov., f 

 nipponica, f noY., S. Swartzianum, nom. nov., S. kiushianum 

 sp. nov., S. micrancanthum (KuTZ.) var. typica Y^endo, var. 

 stipulata Yendo, S. nigrifolium Yendo, S. assimile Hara. var. 

 stipulate, Yendo S. sagamianum Yendo, S. nipponicum Yendo, 

 Ishige Okamurai, nov. gen. et nov. sp. K. Okamura. 



