ROSACEAE 



539 



long, the filaments flattened and broadened above, the anthers 

 pale yellowish brown when dried, with a deep brown base. 



Alpine meadows; Honshu (Japan Sea side of centr. distr.). 



Korea (variety). 



Var. japonensis (Makino) Ohwi. S. canadensis var. japon- 



ensis Makino; 5. japonensis (Makino) Kudo. Ezo-t6-uchi- 



so. Differs from the typical phase in the centripetal inflores- 

 cence. Rocks along valleys and ravines; Hokkaido; rare. 



6. Sanguisorba stipulata Raf. S. sitchensis C. A. Mey.; 

 S. canadensis var. sitchensis (C. A. Mey.) Koidz.; S. sitchensis 

 var. typica Hara; S. sitchensis var. pilosa Hara; S. sitchensis 



var. bracteosa Hara; S. kjshinamii Honda Takane-t6-uchi- 



s6. Perennial herb usually nearly glabrous, with stout creep- 

 ing rhizomes; stems 40-80 cm. long, often branching above; 

 leaflets of radical leaves 11-13, rather thin, ovate-orbicular to 



oblong, 2-4 cm. long, 1.5-3 cm. wide, rounded at apex, cordate 

 to rounded at base, glaucous beneath, acutely toothed, the 

 petiolules 5-15 mm. long, the cauhne leaves smaller, often 

 with appressed soft short hairs near base; spikes few, erect, 

 3-8 cm. long, 7-10 mm. across exclusive of the stamens, very 

 densely many-flowered, flowering first from the base, white, 

 often slightly greenish; filaments 7-8 mm. long, slightly 



broadened above; stigma rather small. -Aug.-Scpt. Alpine 



meadows; Hokkaido, Honshu (Kanto and northern part of 

 the centr. distr.) ; rare. 



Var. riishirensis (Makino) Hara. S. riishirensis Makino; 

 S. sitchensis var. riishirensis (Makino) Kudo; S. chlorantha 



Nakai Rishiri-t6-uchi-s6. With reddish brown curled 



hairs on stems and leaf-rachises. Hokkaido. 



17. ALCHEMILLA L. Hagoromogusa Zoku 



Perennial or annual herbs usually with long silky pubescence; leaves alternate, orbicular-cordate, more or less palmately lobed, 

 the stipules connate and adnate to the lower part of the petiole; flowers small, usually green, in dense corymbs or in heads 

 without bracteoles; calyx with urceolate or obconical tube, the lobes 4 or 5, bracts of calicuus as many and aternate with them; 

 petal absent; stamens 4; carpels 1-4, free, the style from the ventral side or from the base of the carpel, the ovules solitary; 



achenes 1-4, enclosed in a calyx-tube, membranous. Many species, in temperate to cold regions and on high mountains of 



the N. Hemisphere. 



1. Alchemilla japonica Nakai & Hara. A. vulgaris 



sensu auct. Japon, non L. Hagoromogusa. Greenish, 



silky-pubescent perennial herb 10-30 cm. high, with stout 

 creeping rhizomes; stems ascending from base; radical leaves 

 long-petioled, orbicular, deeply cordate with a nearly closed 

 sinus, 3-7 cm. in diameter, shallowly 7- to 9-lobed, toothed. 



soft-pubescent on both sides, the cauline leaves few, smaller, 

 short-petioled, the stipules green, toothed; flowers densely 

 subumbellate, about 3 mm. across; calyx hairy, the lobes 4, 

 1-1.2 mm. long; achenes solitary, ovoid, glabrous, 1.5 mm. 



long, subacute. Alpine meadows; Hokkaido (Mount Yu- 



bari), Honshu (centr. distr.); very rare. 



18. AGRIMONIA L. Kin-mizu-hiki Zoku 



Usually hirsute perennial herbs with erect simple or branching stems; leaves alternate, imparipinnate, the leaflets toothed, 

 often alternating with smaller ones, the stipules adnate to the lower part of the petioles; inflorescence an elongate terminal 

 spike; flowers small, yellow, short-pedicelled, bearing a bract at the base of the pedicel and 2 bracteoles near the middle; calyx 

 persistent, accrescent, the tube obconical, the lobes 5, connivent in fruit, bracts of the caliculus consisting of many hooked spines; 

 petals 5, yellow; stamens 5-10; carpels 2, sessile; achenes 1 or 2, elliptic, coriaceous, enclosed in a slightly hardened caly.x-tube. 

 More than 10 species, in the N. Hemisphere and S. America. 



1. Agrimonia pUosa Ledeb. A. eupatoria sensu auct. 

 Japon., non L.; A. viscidula Bunge; A. dahurica Willd. ex Ser.; 

 A. eupatoria var. pilosa (Ledeb.) Nakai; A. pilosa var. ja- 

 ponica (Miq.) Nakai; A. viscidula var. japonica Miq.; A. 



japonica (Miq.) Koidz. Kin-mizu-hiki. Coarsely hirsute 



perennial; rhizomes rather stout; stems erect, 30-80 cm. long, 

 often branching above; leaves 5- to 7-foliolate, the leaflets 

 gradually smaller in the lower ones, alternate with much 

 smaller ones, the upper 3 uniform, larger, oblong, obovate or 

 ovate-oblong, 3-6 cm. long, 1.5-3.5 cm. wide, acute to sub- 

 obtuse, coarsely toothed, pale green and often with spreading 

 short hairs on the nerves beneath; stipules green, coarsely 



toothed; inflorescence terminal, erect, 10-20 cm. long; flowers 

 loosely arranged at anthesis, yellow; calyx-tube accrescent after 

 anthesis, about 3 mm. long in fruit, sulcate, with a series of 

 connivent hooked spines on upper edge; petals narrowly ob- 

 ovate, rounded at apex, 3-6 mm. long. July-Oct. Meadows 



and roadsides in lowlands and mountains; Hokkaido, Honshu, 



Shikoku, Kyushu; rather common. Korea, China, Siberia, 



and e. Europe. 



Var. nipponica (Koidz.) Kitam. A. nipponica Koidz. 



HiME-KiN-Mizu-HiKi. Slcnder; leaflets 3-5, obtuse; flowers 

 smaller. Occurs with the t>'pical phase. 



19. ROSA L. 



Bara Zoku 



Erect or scandent shrubs usually prickly on branches and often also on petioles and other parts, the prickles at base of petioles 

 often larger than the others; leaves alternate, imparipinnate, the stipules erect, pardy adnate to the lower portion of petiole, the 

 leaflets toothed; flowers solitary or in corymbs or panicles, white, pinkish or yellow; calyx not caliculate, the tube globose to 

 urceolate, becoming fleshy in fruit, the limb 5-lobed, with the disc inside of the calyx-tube; petals 5; stamens many; carpels many, 

 sometimes few, inserted on the lower portion of the calyx-tube, sessile, free; style from the ventral side of the carpel, free or 



connate above; achenes enclosed in the fleshy calyx-tube, coriaceous. About 100 species, in temperate to cold regions of the 



N. Hemisphere. 



