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frequently cultivated as a border or edging, ¢.g., at Yedo and 
Shonai. Finet and Gagnepain, after uniting Coptis anemone- 
folia and Coptis orientalis, record the same information. The 
Shonai specimen is Faurie’s no. 2741, and Huth in the Bulletin 
de l’ Herbier Boissier, v, 1897, p. 1086, quotes this number as 
Coptis occidentalis var. japonica, along with Faurie’s nos. 2416 
and 4405, one of which, the second, in Franchet’s opinion, is 
Coptis orientalis, and the other—the first, Coptis anemonefolia. 
Thus Huth’s Coptis occidentalis var. japonica takes a little from 
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Fig. 18.—From the fifth figure of the Phonzo Zufu. 
overlooking Huth’s work, have run the two or three species, 
not merely into one species, but into a variety of one species, as 
Coptis Teeta var. anemonejolia. ons 
t is very evident that there is considerable necessity tor 
the study in Japan of these plants. And it is clear that what 
is there cultivated is not uniform, but that part of it is C. brachy- 
