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Hah. Prov. Ugo ; Fuku-ura {T. KawakamiX 1897), Mt. Chokai (2". 

 Kaioahami ! 1897) ; Prov. Rikuzen : Takata-raachi in Kesen-gori {G. 

 Toha\ Sept. 15, 1903); Prov. Kadzusa ; Motosuka (7. Wahonal July 28, 

 1902); Prov. Ivvari; Niida {K. Ohadal herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, 

 June 21, 1901). 



This grows on muddy situation near sea in Northern Japan and found 

 at first by Mr. Takiya Kawakami, who kindly sent me the specimens and 

 figures for examination. In form it very closely resembles Ranunculus 

 plantaginifolius Murr. ( = R. sulsuginosus DC. non Pall.), but it is smaller 

 and leaves are quite glabrous and thinner; in the form of leaves it differs 

 ap[)arently also from R. Cymbalarke Pursh (= R. sulsuginosus Pall), 

 which is not yet found in Japan. Runner sometimes issuing from the 

 axil of the bract on the scape. 



Eranthis pinnatifida Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX. p. 605, in nota, 

 tab. IX. figg. 3-8 (1876); Franch. et Sav. Enum. PI. Jap. II. p. 269; 

 Huth in Engler's Bot. Jahrb. XVI. p. 299. 



? Eranthis Keiskei Franch. et Sav. 1. c. p. 269 ; Huth 1. c. p. 297. 



? Helleboroides alhifiorum Huth. 



A small perennial herb, about 8-10 cm. high in flower, but attaining 

 about 18cm. in height in fruit. Corm globose, solid, brown externally, 

 attaining 2cm. in diameter, provided with delicate fibrous roots below, and 

 with scapes and radical leaves above. Leaves all radical, green, often 

 slightly purpurascent on margin and paler on veins as are the involucral 

 bracts in flower, 1-6 to a rhizome, shorter than the scape, long-petiolate, 

 glabrous, flaccid, deeply 3-parted, orbiculato-reniform and somewhat 5- 

 angulate in outline, attaining about 7 cm. in length and in width in fruit, 

 but smaller in flowering time ; each lobe pectinately pinnati-parted into 

 lato-linear acutish segments ; the midlobe ovate and cuneate at the base ; 

 lateral lobes again deeply 2-parted, sometimes sub-3-parted, very broadly 

 cuneate at the base. Scapes 1-6 to a rhizome, erect or ascending, slender, 

 glabrous, flaccid ; involucral bracts 2, opposite, sessile, patent, foliaceous, 

 glabrous, deeply 3-parted, the midlobe simple and lato-linear or pauci- 

 laciniate, the lateral lobes pauci-laciniate at the base or laciniato-pinnate 

 into 'oblong-linear segments. Flower solitary, pedicellate, erect or nearly 

 so, white, about 16-17 mm. across ; pedicel puberulent, shorter or longer 

 than the flower. Sepals 5, pataloid, nearly p.itent, membranaceous, veined, 





