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Viola sylvestris y. grypoceras Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 743. 

 Viola lieicJienbachiana Franch. et Sav. 1. c. I. p. 42, non Jordan. 

 Viola longepedunculata Franch. et Sav. 1. c. II. p. 286. 

 Viola sylvatica Kanitz Anthoph. Jap. p. 25, non Fries. 

 Viola sylvatica var. imherhis A. Gray Bot. Jap. p. 382. 

 Viola Grayi Franch. et Sav. 1. c. II. p. 288. 

 Viola Riviniana Franch. et Sav. 1. c. I. p. 43, non Reichb. 

 Nom. Jap. Yabu-sumire, tachi-tsubosumire. 

 Hah. Japan. 



Very common and variable plant, widely distributed over Japan. A 

 white-flowered form is sometimes met with. 



Viola (Nomimium) acuminata Ledeb. Fl. Boss. I. p. 252 ; Walp. 

 Eepert. II. p. 766 ; Maxim. Prim. Fl. Amur. p. 50 ; Regtd Tent. Fl. Ussur. 

 p. 25 ; Fr. Schm. Reip. im Amur. u. Ins. Sachal. p. 115 ; Hance in Journ. 

 Bot. 1875, p. 131 ; Franch. PI. David. I. p. 44 ; De Boiss. in Bull. Soc. 

 Bot. de Fr. XLVII. p. 322. 



Viola canina var. acuminata Kegel PI. Eadd. I. p. 247 ; Maxim, 

 in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 746, et Enum. PI. Mongol. J. p. 80 ; Forbes et 

 Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXIII. p. 52 ; Korsh. in Act. Hort. Petrop. 

 XII. p. 310 ; Miyabe Fl. Kuril. Isl. p. 219 ; Palib. Consp. Fl. Kor. L 

 p. 31. 



Viola laciniosa A. Gray in Perry's Exped. Jap. p. 308, et Bot. Jap. 

 p. 382 ; Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. I. p. 43, et II. p. 289. 



Viola micrantha Turcz. 



The following description is made from the specimens collected on 

 Mt. Kobotoke-toge in the boundary of pro v. Musashi and Kai, and it is of 

 smaller size than the examples of the northern Japan. 



Caulescent, about 10-11 cm. high in flower; rhizome short, erect or 

 oblique, densely rooting. Stems about 2 to 3, erect, foliiferous throughout, 

 terete, glabrous, light green, pur[)le below, l§-3 mm. across. Leaves 

 alternate, ova to-cordate, shortly acuminate with an obtuse tip, with an 

 opened sinus, crenate or crenato-serrate, glabrous above, pubescent on the 

 nerves beneath, 18-40 mm. long, 17-32 mm. wide in flower, the inferior 

 ones diminished in size and often purplish beneath ; veins 4-5 on each side, 

 incumbent-arcuate, the lowest one branched at the base on the outside ; the 

 petiole longer or shorter than the blade, narrow, glabrous, attaining about 



