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Lactuca chinensis (Thmib.) Makino, nom. nov. 



Prenanihes chinensis Thunb. Fl. Jap. (1784) p. 301 ; Willd. Sp. PI. 

 III. p. 1533 ; Pers. Syn. PI. II. p. 365 ; Spreng. Syst. Veg. III. p. 654. 

 Youngia ? chinensis DC. Prodr. VII. p. 194, 



Chondrilla chinensis Poir. Encyc. Suppl. 11. p. 331. 



Prenanthes versicolor Turcz. in litt. 1829, ex DC. Prodr. VII. p. 151; 

 Fisch. in Bunge Enmn. PI. Chin. Bor. (1832) p. 40. 



Lactuca versicolor Schultz-Bip. (1362); Herd. PI. Radd. III. 4. p. 29; 

 Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 362 ; Franch. PI. David. I. p. 188 ; Baker 

 et S. Moore in Jonrn. Linn. Soc. XVII. p. 383 ; Forbes et Hemsl. in Journ- 

 Linn. Soc. XXIII. p. 485 ; 0. Kiintze Rev. Gen. PL I p. 349 ; Henry 

 in Trans. Asiat. Soc. Jap. XXIV. Suppl. p. 56 ; Palib. Consp. Fl. Kor. 

 L p. 124; Diels in Engl. Bot. Jabrb. XXIX. p. 631. 



Crepis versicolor Fisch. in litt. 1822, ex DC. Prodr. VII. p. 151. 



Ixeris versicolor DC. Prodr. VII. p. 151 ; Ledeb. Fl. Ros«. 11. p. 

 817; Benth. Fl. Hongk. p. 193; Maxim. Prim. Fl. Anmr. pj). 180, 473, 

 483; Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 123; Franch. et Sav. Enuni. PI. Jap. I. p. 

 269; Korsh. in Act. Hort. Petrop. XII. p. 363. 



Parkhaicsia versicolor Spreng. Syst. Veg. III. p. 651. 



Lagoseris versicolor Fisch. 



Barhhausia tenella Benth. (1842) ; Walp. Rep. II. p. 697. 



Nom. Jap. Takaso go-so. 



Hah. Japan, widely distributed. » i 



Lactuca (Ixeris) tamagawaensis Makino Notes on Jap. PI. XV 

 in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, VI. (1892) p. 56, (nomen). 



Lactuca versicolor var. arenicola Makino PI. Jap. Nov. v. Minus Cogn. 

 in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XII. (1898) p. 44. 



Nom. Jap. Kaioara-nigana. i 



Hob. Japan. 



This species grows on dry gravelly beds of rivers, bearing yellow flowers 

 and densely tufted angustate leaves. 



Rubia cordifolia Linn. var. r- lancifolia Regel Tent. Fl. Ussur 

 (1862) p. 81, tab. 8, fig. 3. 



Leaves 8-4-verticillate, oblong to lanceolate, rounded to acute at the 

 base, cuspidato-acute at the apex, petiolate, 5-3-plinerved. 



