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dadi. The alliance of this fine species is with A. circinatum, Pursh, of Oregon. Like that 

 species, it is a shrub. It is said to grow on hill-sides, in dry and sandy soil. 



Acer polymorphum, Sieb. & Zucc. I. c. A. septemlohum, palmatum, and dissectum, Thunb. 

 Simoda. Two or three forms. A low bush, on steep banks ; both in dry and damp woods. 



Acer pictum, Thunb. I. c. ; Sieb. & Zucc. I. c. Hakodadi. In blossom. A tree 30 to 50 feet 

 high. Allied to A. platanoides. 



Vicia Faba, Linn. Yokohama. Cultivated. 



Vicia sativa, Linn. Simoda and Yokohama. On hills and in ditches. 



Vicia tetrasperma, Linn. Ervum tetraspermum, Linn.; Thunb. Fl. Jap., p. 284. Simoda 

 and Yokohama. 



Vicia Orobus, DG. ? Dry hills, Simoda. 



Lathtrcs maritimus, Bigeloiu. Pisum maritimum, Linn. ; Thunb. I. c. Simoda and Hako- 

 dadi. On the beach, in sand. 



Pisum sativum, Linn. ; Thunb. I. c. Yokohama. Cultivated. 



Wistaria Sinensis, Sieb. & Zucc. Fl. Jap. 1, p. 90, t. 44. Simoda ; May. Flowers purplish. 



Indigofera decora, Lindl. Bot. Reg. 1846, t. 22. Simoda. Probably native. 



Hedtsarum coronarium, Linn. Simoda. It is not stated whether this is cultivated. 



Lotos cornicdlatus, Linn, f Simoda. Introduced. 



Medic aqo lupulina, Linn. Simoda. In the sand of the sea shore. 



Thermopris fabacea, DC ; Frodr. 2, p. 99. Hakodadi. Young foliage, &c, silky-pubescent 

 underneath, much as in some Californian and Oregon specimens, with which the range of this 

 species is geographically connected by means of the Kurile Islands and Kamtschatka. 



Cjsalpinia sepiaria, Roxb. Fl. Lnd. C. Japonica, Sieb. & Zucc. Fam. Nat. Fl. Jap. I. c, 

 p. 9. Simoda. On dry hill-sides. " A tree, 30 feet high." 



Prunus (Amygdalus) Persica. Hakodadi. 



Prunus Pseudo-cerasus, Lindl.; floribus normalibus et plenis. Cultivated everywhere. 



Prunus Japonica, Thunb.; Sieb. & Zucc. Fl. Jap., p. 172, t. 90. 



SpiRiEA callosa, Thunb. Fl. Jap., p. 209 ; Sieb. & Zucc. Fam. Nat. Fl. Jap., p. 16. Simoda. 



Spir^a japonica, Sieb. & Blume, Bijdr., p. 1114. Simoda. Cultivated. 



Spiraea thunbergii, Sieb. & Zucc Fl. Jap. l,p. 130, t. 69. Simoda and Hakodadi. 



Kerria japonica, DC. ; Sieb. & Zucc. I. c. t. 68. Simoda and Hakodadi. Both the wild, 

 with single flowers, and the double-flowered state, so common in our gardens, under the old 

 name of Corchorus Japonicus. 



Potentilla fragarioides, Linn.; Lehm. Pot., p. 50, t. 4. Hakodadi, Webster Island, and 

 Yokohama. Both small and diffuse forms, with copious silky villosity ; just the Kamtschatka 

 plant of Lehmann, only they show no true runners. Also much less hairy forms ; much larger 

 throughout, a foot high. 



Potentilla gelida, C. A. Meyer; Ledeb. Fl. Ross, 2, p. 59? Simoda. A glabrate form, 

 with dentate, but not incised leaves. 



Fragaria (Duchesnea) Indica, Linn. Simoda. 



Kubus parvifolius, Sieb. & Zucc. I. c, p 18. Simoda, &c. 



Kubus incisus, Thunb. Fl. Jap., p. 217, ex char. Simoda. The smaller leaves of our speci- 

 mens accord with Thunberg's description in size and shape, although they generally have 

 sborter petioles. The larger ones are about two inches in length and breadth, and are either 

 moderately or deeply three-lobed, the lobes ovate and obtuse, the petioles 12 to 18 lines long ; 



