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Rumex Hippolapathum a. doonesticus Fries. 



Mumex crispus /9. domesticus Weiniii. 



Eumex longifoUus " DC." Meisn. in DC. Prodr. XIV. p. 44. 



Rumex alpinus Willd. herb, ex Spreng. 



Rumex aquaticus /9. crispatus Wahlenb. 



Rumex aquaticus Hook. ; Benth. Handh. Brit. Bot. ed. 5, p. 380 ; Maki- 

 no in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, X. p. 108, non Linn. 



Rumex aquaticus var. japonicus Franch. et Sav. Ennm. PI. Jap. II. 

 p. 470, non Ibidem I. p. 392, et nee Meisn. 



Eah. Prov. Musashi : Shimiira {T. 3Iahino\ May 22, 1898); Prov. 

 EiKUCiiiJ : Near Itsnkushi {T. Makifiol Aug. 1890); Prov. Shinano : Mt. 

 Togakiislii {li. Yatahe and Z. Matsum.ura\ Herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. 

 Tokyo, July 10, 1884) ; Prov. Iwashiro : Foot of Mt. Bandai {Z. Matsu- 

 mural Herb. 1. c. Aug. 1879), Aidzu (Z. 31atsumura\ Herb. I.e. Aug. ]7, 

 1879); Prov. Hidaka: Saruru {Y. ToJacbucMl Herb. I.e. Aug. 12, 1892) 

 Horoidzumi (Y. Tohulmcliil Herb. 1. c. Aug. 20, 1892). 



This species is found in the middle and northern Japan. 



Pedicularis (Anodontjo, Sceptra) nippoiiica Makino in Bot. Mag., 

 Tokyo, IX. 1895, p. 72. 



Eobust perennial, attaining about 10 dfcim. in height, with a stout 

 and often ramose inflorescence and a stout and short stem. Stem terete, 

 pubescent, leafy. Leaves opposite, placed towards the base of the plant, 

 with a petiole which is dilated at the base, but sessile and clasjnng the 

 stem in the upper ones, oblong or oblong- lanceolate, acuminate, rather 

 shortly narrowed below, bipinnatilid, broadly winged on both sides of the 

 rachis, glabrous, but pubescent along the rachis in the U[)per surface, the 

 superior ones smaller in size and connate at the base, the largest one 

 attaining 40 cm. or more in length and about 16 cm. in breadth ; pinnai 

 numerous, patent, alternate, lanceolate, attaining about 3§ em. wide, acu- 

 minate, with numerous deltoid-lanceolate and taperingly pointed lobes whicii 

 are argiitely serrate with simple or serrulate teeth, largest in the middle 

 ones but gradually diminished below and at length into only serrated deltoid 

 lobes ; rachis prominent beneath, the wing irregularly dentate with serrulate 

 teeth ; veins of pinnje numerous, straight or slightly arcuate. Inflores- 

 cence over-to[)ing the leaves, loosely ramot-e, but occasionally simple; spike 

 elongate, with stout and pubescent rachis ; bracts numerous, alternate and 



