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Hah. Prov. Kitami in Hokkaido : Sanamit of Mt. Rishiri in Isl. Rishiri 

 {T. Kawalcamil herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Aug. 1901; T. 3Iaki- 

 no\ Aug. 1903). 



Woodsia (Euwoodsia) japonica Makino nom. nov. 



Woodsia simiata Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XT. (1897) p. 64, non 

 Christ, nee W. polystichoides y. sinuata Hook. 



Nom. Jap. Kogane-shida. 



Add. Hah. Prov. Shimotsuke : Mt. Koshin {T. BlaMnol), Nikko 

 {T. Mahino\). 



This diflfers from W. sinuata (Hook.) Christ, by the decurrence of the 

 base of pinnte against rachis, the density and form of hairs on frond, the 

 form of scales of the base of stipe, the size of indusium, the state of artic- 

 ulation of the stipe, etc. 



Woodsia (Euwoodsia) sinuata (Hook.) Christ Fil. Faurieante IV. in 

 Bull. Herb. Boiss. 2""' Ser. II. p. 830 (1902), non Makino. 



Woodsia polysiichoides y. sinuata Hook. Gard. Ferns (1862), tab. 32, 

 fig. 3 ; Hook, et Baker, Syn. Fil. ed. 2, p. 48 ; Yabe in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, 

 XVII. p. 63, excl. syn. IV. sinuata Makino. 



About 6-16 cm. in height. Caudex short, ascending, thick ; roots brown- 

 ish-black, with root-hairs. Stipes tufted, erect, or erect-patent, stramine- 

 ous to deep-rufous, clothed with scales at the base, but hairy with fibrillose 

 scales throughout and loosely mixed with ovato-lanceolate or subulato-lanceolate 

 very sharply acuminate scales as is the rachis, furnished with a very oblique 

 incomplete joint at the top, about 2-5 cm. long ; basal scales rufo-isabel-colour- 

 ed, ovate to ovato-lanceolate, very attenuatedly acuminate, very laxly lacerate, 

 concave, membranaceous. Frond lanceolate, longer than the stipe, about 

 attaining 13 cm. long, 2^ cm. broad, bipinnatifid, membranaceous, thinly 

 covered with very sharply acuminate linear-lanceolate to fibrillose scales on 

 veins and veinlets beneath, subglabrous or very sparingly pilose above ; 

 pinnge about 8-16 on each side, usually subopposite but often alternate 

 above, spreading, more or less remote, but much remote below, deltoid or 

 deltoid-ovate, the upper ones passing into ovato-oblong to ovato-lanceolate and 

 often subfalcate in form, obtuse at the apex, subtruncate or cuneato-truncate 

 and very shortly petiolate at the base, but sessile in superior ones, subauricu- 



