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Primula horealis Duby in DC. 1. c. p. 43 ; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. III. p. 

 15 ; Kegel in Act. Hort. Petrop. III. p. 149 ; Herd. PI. Radd. IV. p. 

 114; Gray Syn. Fl. N. Amer. II. 1, p. 58. 



Primula parvifolia Duby in DC. 1. c, p. 42. 



Primula gigantea Jacq. ; Willd. Sp. PI. I. (1797) p. 805 ; Pers. Syn. 

 PI. I. p. 170; Lehm. I.e. p. 61, tab. 6. 



Primula pusilla Goldie, (1822) ; Spreng. 1. c. p. 575 ; Hook, in Bot. 

 ]\Iag. tab. 3020, non Wall. 



Primula farinosa Nutt. non. Linn. 



Primula onacrocarpa Maxim, in Mel. Biol. VI. p. 269, (1867) ; 

 Franch. et Sav. Enum. PL Jap. I. p. 300 ; Franch. in Bull. Soc. Philom. 

 Paris, 14 avril 1888, p. 10 ; Pax in Engler's Bot. Jalirb. X. p. 211 ; 

 Miyabe Fl. Kuril. Isl. in Mem. Bost. Soc. Nat. Hist. IV. p. 250, in adnot. 



Small, Leaves long-petiolate, ovato-rotund, or rhombeo-ovate, or 

 elliptical, irregularly sharp-dentate, abruptly cuueate at the base, glabrous, 

 efarinose but often with a mere trace of farinose beneath, 7-13 mm. long, 

 7-11 mm. wide ; petiole narrowly winged, attaining about 2J cm. in length. 

 Scape erect, exceeding the leaves, 4^-5^ cm. high, 2-3-flowered ; involucre 

 subulate, acuminate, shorter than the pedicels. Calyx tubuloso-campanu- 

 late, 5-fid, persistent ; lobes very slightly shorter than the tube, erect^ 

 lato-lanceolate, acutish. Capsule cylindrical, twice the length of the 

 calyx, 6-7 mm. long ; valves obtuse. 



Nom. Jap. Hime-hozahiira (T. Makino.) 



Eab. Prov. Rikuchu : Mt. Hayachine (0. Sato ! July 28, 1902). 



This is only rarely found on alpine mountains of the northern part of 

 Japan. I approve of Dr. K. Miyabe's view to take Primula macrocarpa 

 Maxim, as a synonymy to P. mistassinica Michx. 



Athyrium nikkoense Makino, sp. nov. 



Caudex short, erect or ascending, very thickly covered with the basa 

 remains of old stipes, densely rooting below. Stipes ctespitose, much 

 shorter than the frond, narrow, pale when dried but brownish dark at the 

 base, densely clothed with scales towards the base, about 1-14 cm. long ; 

 scales lanceolate to linear, acuminate, entire, membranaceous, ferrugineo- 

 rnfous, often castaneous towards the centre, attaining about 10 mm. long,^ 

 venules very delicate forming many longitudinal areolge. Frond simply 

 pinnate, narrowly lanceolate, acuminate, narrowed below, 8-40 cm. long. 



