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long official residence in Japan. The admirable plates are 

 executed in Munich : they are engraved upon stone after a 

 peculiar method, which is now frequently employed, and are 

 certainly not excelled in beauty or accuracy by any copper- 

 plate engraving in the same style. The portion already pub- 

 lished comprises only the ornamental or otherwise interesting 

 plants, the general account of the Japanese flora being re- 

 served for a future part of the work. The flora of Japan pre- 

 sents such striking analogies to that of the temperate part of 

 North America as to render this work of more than ordinary 

 interest to American botanists. To show this, we select from 

 the forty-six species described and figured by Zuccarini, the 

 following list, placing opposite the Japanese plant the related 

 North American forms. 



FLORA OF JAPAN. FLORA OF NORTH AMERICA. 



Illicium religiosum, Micium Floridanum and parvifiorum. 



Kadsura Japonica, Schizandra coccinea. 



Benthamia Japonica, Cornus florida. 



Corylopsis, two species, Hamamelis and Frothergilla. 



Aralia edulis, Aralia racemosa. 



Symplocos lucida, Hopea tinctoria. 



Styrax Japonicum, etc. Styrax, several species. 



Deutzia, three species, Philadelphia. 



Schizophargma Hydrangeoides, ) j Decumaria and 



Platycrater arguta, \ \ Hydrangea. 



Diervilla, several species, Diervilla Tournefortii. 



Viburnum tomentosum, Viburnum lantanoides. 



Wisteria (or, as it should be, ) 



Wistaria) Japonica, and two >- Wistaria frutescens. 



other species, ) 



Pauloionia imperialis, Catalpa cordifolia. 



While about half the species thus far published are nearly 

 related to (chiefly characteristic) North American plants, only 

 eight, besides those given above, belong to genera which have 

 no representatives in this country. The list might be greatly 

 extended by comparisons from other sources. Thus Hoteia 

 Japonica of Morren and Decaisne (which belongs to the ear- 

 lier established Astilbe, Don.), which was by Thunberg mis- 

 taken for Spiraea Anmcus, closely resembles our own Astilbe 

 decandra, which has been more than once confounded with 



