FLORA OF THE KURILE ISLANDS. 2G1 



Hah. Kif rile Islands (e.« Pallas). 



Distrib. Europe, -western Himalaya, Siberia, Kamtschatka, Dahiiria, Manchuria, Sag- 

 halin, Bi'itish America to Xew Mexico and Xorth Carolina. 



242. Taxus cuspidata, Sieb. & Zncc. Fl. Ja]i. il, p. 61, t. 128; Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 



333; Parlat. iuDC. Prodr. xvi, 2,p 502; Fr. & Sav. Ennm., i, p. 472; Masters, 

 Con. Jap. p. 499. Taxushaccata, var. microcaiya, Trantv. in Max. Prim. Fl. 

 Amnr, p. 259; F. Schm. Fl. Sacb. p. 175. 

 Hah. Etorofa, at Sbibetoro. Kiu-ile Islands, from Ketoi, the fifteenthisliul s^.iLh- 

 Avard {ex Pallas, N". N"ord. Bcitr. iv, p. 128). 

 Distrib. Japan, Saghalin and Manchuria. 



I can detect no differences betAveen the Japanese ]ilant and that of Saghalin and Man- 

 churia in their characters of leaves and fruits. The ripened seeds in both cases are oval- 

 orbicular, compressed, with two or i-arely three ridges towai'd the apex, obtusely short- 

 mucronate, chestnut-brown, and about 5 1-2 nun. long. T. brevifolia, Nutt., of western 

 ^orth America, is most closely related to our plant. 



243. Pinus parviflora, Sieb. & Zucc. Fl. Jap. ir, p. 27, t. 115; Parlat. in DC. Prodr. 



XVI, 2, p. 404; Fr. & Sav. Enum. i, ]i. 464; Eugehn. Revision, p. 15, adnot. 2 



(Bot. Works, p. 370); Masters, Con. Jap. p. 504. 

 Hah. Kurile Islands {fide Siebold). 

 Distrib. Middle and northern Jai)an; also in Nutka Island {Jide Engelm.). 



244. Pinus pumila, Regel in Regel, Each und Herder, PI. Pawl., no. 54; Glehn in Act. 



H. I^etrop. IV, p. 87; F. Schm. Fl. Sach. p. 177. P. Cevibra, var. j^mila. Pall. 

 Fl. Ross, r, 1, p. 4, t. 2, f. E-H; Ledeb. Fl. Ross, in, p. 674; Turcz. Fl. Baic- 

 •Dah. II, p. 141; Pari, in DC. Prodr. xvi, 2, p. 403; Max. Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 

 262; Masters, Con. Jap. p. 505. 

 Hah. Kurile Islands (ea? Pallas, etc.). Shumshu (Akakabe). .E'^orq/M, at Furubetsu 

 and iSTabori. 



Distrib. Northern and eastern Siberia, Dahuria, Manchuria, Saghalin, northern 

 Japan, Kamtschatka, and arctic Alaska. 



245. Picea obovata, Ledeb. Fl. Alt. iv, p. 210; Carr. Conif. p. 253; Max. Prim. Fl. Amur. 



p. 261; Regel, Tent. Fl. Uss. p. 136; Masters, Con. Jap. p. 506. Pinus orien- 

 talis, Ledeb. Fl. Ross, iii, p. 671 (in ])art). Pinus obovata, Antoine, Conif. p. 

 96, t. 37, f. 2. Pinus Abies, Pall. Fl. Ross, i, 1, p. 6 (excl. synon.). 



Hah. Kurile Islands? (e« Pallas). 



Distrib. I^Torthea stern Euro[)e, fi'om the Ural and Altai regions to eastern Siberia, 

 Dahuria and Manchuria. 



246. Larix dahurica, Turcz. in Bull. Mosc. 1838, p. 101 ; Carr. Conif p. 270; Regel, Rev. 



Sp. Gen. Lar. p. 59, n. 6. L. kamtschatica, Carr. 1. c, p. 279. Pinus dahurica, 

 Fisch. in End!. Conif. p. 126; I^edeb. Fl. Ross, in, p. 673. 

 Var. japonica, Max.! in Regel, 1. c, p. 60; Gartenf. 1871, t. 685, f. 5. 

 Hab. S/iil-otan. Etorofu, at Fui'ubctsu and ^Vrimoi. Pallas mentions in his ]N^eue 

 Nordische Beitrage, iv, p. 133, that a larch occurs in Etorofu, growing only in the south- 

 ern half of the island, and also in Kunashiri. 



