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Stem erect, attaining about 4 tlecim. high. Leaves long linear, acu- 

 minate, often gradually attenuated below, entire but usually patently loosely 

 firnbriato-denticulate below, about 4 mm. wide but in the basal ones often 

 broader and linear-spathulate. Panicle repeatedly branched, very numerously 

 flowered. Heads smaller, ,5-6-flowered. Involucral scales 5, linear or 

 broadly linear, about 4 mm. long in flower but 5 mm. in fruit. Corolla 

 4- nearly .') mm, long ; ligule oblong, deeply 5-dentate with narrow teeth. 

 Achenc about 3 mm. long, linear-fusiform ; pappus 2§ mm. long. 



Nom. Jap. Hosoha-nigana (nov.). 



Hah. Prov. Shimoosa : Miyako-mura in Chiba-gori {K. Yamadzutn ! 

 June 24, 1904, June ]905). 



Cirsium inundatum Maldno sp. nov. 



Stem tall, erect, simple, glabrous, striato-sulcate when dry, foliate, often 

 purple, attaining about li m. in height. Leaves sparse, erect-patent, sessile, 

 auriculato-amplexical or semi-amplexical at the base, obscurely serrato-dentate 

 to pinnatiparted, elliptical to oblong-lanceolate but gradually angustate in the 

 superior ones, acuminate, ciliato-spiculose on margins ; lobes spreading, spicu- 

 lose at the apex, 3-6 on each side, deltoid (in the pinnatilobed one), or 

 subulato-lanceolate to lanceolate with a few lobules below and elongate in 

 the terminal lobe (in the pinnatiparted one). Heads erect, but turned 

 laterally in the lateral ones, a few to subnumerous, corymbosely disposed, 

 approximate, with erect peduncles, solitary on the long peduncle or few- 

 subaggregate with short or very short pedicels ; bracteoles small, angustato- 

 linear, usually exceeding the pedicel. Involucre campanulate, rounded at 

 the base ; involucral scales narrowly subulato-linear, aculeato-acuminate, 

 ciliated on margin, convex dorsally, erect or ascending, subglabrous or 

 thinly arachnoid, subrigid, the exterior ones about ^ as long as the internal 

 ones, viridescent but ])urple above in the internal ones. Flolets numerous, 

 purple ; corolla about 18-21 mm. long, longer than pappus ; lobes equal 

 to the throat and i as long as the filiform tube. Pappus about 14 mm. 

 long, avellaneous. Ovary about 2|-4mra. long, lato-linear. 



Nom. Jap. TacM-azami (nov.). 



Hah. Prov. Iwashiro : Aidzu (./. Matsumura ! herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. 

 Univ.. Tokyo, Aug. 1879), Mt. lide {J. 3Iatsum.ura ! herb. ibid. Aug. 13, 

 1879), Mt. Bandai {G. NaJcahara I herb. ibid. Aug. 26, 1904); Prov. 

 Etchu : Yao (R. Kitasaioa ! Sept, 1903) ; Prov. Shinaxo : Idzuna-hara 

 and Togakushi-hara (7'. 3Mcino\ Aug. 1904). 



