32 THE JOURNAL OF JAPANESE BOTANY. ivoi.iiii. .\o. s. 



tubular, white ; limb-lobes subulate, not spi-eading ; that in the hermaphrodite 

 flower greenish-pale and soon becoming yellowish ; tube filiform-tubular ; limb 

 infundibuli-campanulate with 5 deltoid acute lobes. Anthers yellow, often very 

 slightly exserted. Style filiform, exserted ; arms 2, filiform and white in the 

 pistillate flower but linear and pale-greenish in the hermaphrodite flower. 

 Ovary minute, narrowly obovato-oblong, compressed, pale, puterulous with 

 antrorse and appressed white hairs, l|nim. long. Achene narrowly obovato- 

 oblong, compressed, pale-di-ab, puberulous with appressed pale hairs, Ij mm. 

 long. Pappus 1-seriate, white in the ovary liut light-gilvous in the fruit, finely 

 capillary, very minutely spinulose, about 3-tiaies as long as the achene. 



Nom. Jap. 0-arpchino(jihu (nov.). 



Hah. Prov. MUSASHI (T. Making!). 



A stout useless weed freely growing in waste places usually near sea, or 

 occasionally in field, and the time of bloom is September-October. This is 

 probably a hybrid recently raised between Erigeron canaJcnsig L. and E. 

 litiifoliiix WiLi.D. 



Aster subulatus Miciix. Fl. Bor. Amer. II. p. 111. 

 Nom. Jap. Höki-yiku (meaning Broom Aster). 

 Hab. Prov. SETTSU : Near Osaka (T. Making!). 



A North-American species. Now naturalized in various localities of this 

 country, such as prov. Kii, Ise, and Musashi besides prov. Settsu above-mentioned. 



Polygonum iseanum Makin'g, nov. sp. 



Annual, attaining 7 decim. high. Stem slender, slenderly loose-ramose, 

 terete, smooth, glabrous, green, with more or less prominent nodes. Leaves 

 alternate, very shortly petiolate, linear-lanceolate to linear, gradually attenuato- 

 acuminate at the apex, roimded-obtuse, obtuse or acutish at the base, flaccidly 

 membranaceous, puberulous above, glabrous and puncticulate beneath, ap- 

 pressedly antrorse-eiliated on margins, 2-10 cm. long, 3-13 mm. wide ; midrib 

 slender, prominent and appressed-liirsute beneath ; veins weak, subnumerous, 

 not dense, arcurte upwards, appressed-hirsute beneath ; petiole appressed- 

 hirsute, 1-4 mm. long ; ochrea tubular, about 5-9 mm. long, appressed-hirsute, 

 long-fimbriate on mouth. Racemes terminal and axillary, slender, curved, very 

 laxly flowered (the lower flower-clusters distant), with filiform rachis and 

 long-fimbriated obconical ochreas. Flowers minute, jointed to gracile pedicel, 

 pale. Achene small, more or less exserted beyond the persistent calyx, lenticulai-, 

 ovate, acute at the apex, smooth and shining, brown, 2-21 mm. long. 



Nom. Jap. Ise-tade (nov.). 



Hab. Prov. ISE, southern. 



( To be conti nueil.) 



