THE STARCH OF EVERGREEN LEAVES ee 333 | 
About one- halt of the plants contained some starch in the a : 
Evergreen leaves from Kumamoto. 
‘The alcoholic specimens of evergreen leaves were sent to me - 
through the kindness of Professor Aida, of the Fifth Higher 
School in Kumamoto. The leaves were collected at Kumamoto a 
and its vicinity about February 20. - 
i Of thirty- three species examined, starch was absent from the 
‘mesophyll of the following three : 
eee glauca, : Podocarpus macrophylla. 
a va. 
All the rest contained more or less starch in the mere 
the following (more than one-third) were found to bgines 
“Moderately tich in starch. 2 
- Citrus Aurantium Bergamia. Cryptomeria japonica. 
‘nhamomum Camphora. Podocarpus chinensis. 
-ithamomum pedunculatum, Chamaecyparis obtuse. 
yllum macropodum. Abies firma. 
erica. Pinus Th 
he em maining eighteen contained little or very little 
ohyll, and are as follows : 
Rosa indica. — 
Juniperus rigida. | 
tals of calcium oxalate were found in ee 
Noticed that these results do not represent e 
Me of the year in Kumamoto, as all. the ma 
ee collected i in the latter ae of i y. 
