ON THE PLANTS 



COLLECTED IN THE ISLAND OF ALAID 



BY HIDEGORO ITO AND GOSAKU KOMORI, 



BY 

 MisAO Tatewaki. 



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INTRODUCTION. 



Until recculy the Herbarium of the Faculty of Agriculture, Hokkaido 

 Imperial University contained no plant>from the Island of Alaid, on account of 

 the difficulty of communication. Messers. Hidegoro Ito and Gosaku Komori, 

 students of the Faculty of Agriculture, presented to the University their spe- 

 cimens of plants collected in that island during the summer of 1926. It was 

 by the good offices and kind encouragement of Messers. Naoya Hashimoto 

 and Tadaichi Kodama that they were enabled to make a botanical collection 

 in that unhabited island ■ and to take the opportunity of ascending Mt. Alaid. 

 The writer wishes to express his sincere thanks to Prof K. Miyahe for his 

 kind direction and to Messers. HidegorÖ Ito and Gosaku KoMORr for their kind 

 endeavour and the enthusiasm with which they have collected the specimens 

 under great peril and difficulty. 



Alaid is the northernmost and loftiest island in the Kuriles, l>'ing about 

 IS miles north-west from the Island of Paramushir. It extends from 5o''48' 

 to 5o°SS' North Latitude, and from iS5°27' to i55°40' Longitude East of 



[Trans, of Sapporo Xalurnl History Soc. Vol. I.\, Part. II, 1927. J 



