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independent geographical race, which is distributed in Siberia 

 from „Altay" Mountains to Amur-Country and Japan. 



By Nakai ^ „B- falcatum", Yabe is divided into two parts: 



I. B. falcatum, Yabe e. pte = B. s с orzoner ifoli um, 

 „Willd.", Nakai [„foliis caulinis linearibus 9 — U ner- 

 viis"] and. 



II. B. falcatum, Yabe e. pte^B. falcatum, „L.", Na- 

 kai [„foliis caulinis lineari-lanceolatis 7-nerviis"]; as a sy- 

 nonim of this plant is cited „ B. falcatum var. s с о r z о - 

 пег ifoliunr', Yabe quoad plantam Koreanam ^. 



From various races of B. falcatum s. e. in Korea exists only 

 B. falcatum scorzoneri folium there vere the two „spe- 

 cies" given by Nakai, as I think, are no others than two form 

 of subsp. scorzonerifolium described by Wolff: f. nor- 

 male and /". ensifolium. 



I am sorry to say that I have not seen specimina from Taishoeng 

 [Formosa]. Without doubt, the synonims from Hooker-Clarke's 

 Flora of British India, quoted by Hayata ^ can not be in reality 

 refered hereunto. In Japanese flora, even in southern one, „wir 

 finden eine grosse Analogie" with Indian one, „aber keine Iden- 

 tität, indem viele Genera beiden Floren gemeinschaftlich eingehören, 

 aber die Arten, wenn auch oft nahe verwandt, doch fast durch- 

 gängig verschieden sind" *. 



I think, we ^have here an independent race, which is closely allie 

 to B. f. scorzonerifolium and is a derivative of this race ^ 



1 Nakai Flora Koreana The Journ. of the Coll. of Science Imper. Univers. 

 ТоЦо XXVI 119 9 256—257. 



2 Y a b e Umbell. Когеае Ucbiymanae The Botanic. Magazine Tokyo XVII 

 190 3 105. 



3 Hayata Materials for a flora of Formosa The Journ. of the Coll. of 

 Science Imper. Univers. Tokyo XXXI 1911 128. Conf. Y a b e's Monograph: 

 „Planta ex insula Formosa a me visa descriptione Clarke s abhorret foliis 

 lineari-lanceolatis involucri foiiolis inaequalibus". 



* Siebold & Zuccarini Florae Japon, famil. natural. Acta Acad. Phys.- 

 Mathem. Monach. Separ. Sectio I 4. 



'In Matsumura & Hayata Enumer. pi. Formos. The Journ. of the 

 Coll. of Science Imper. Univers. Tokyo XXII 1 9 Ô 6 I do not know why, В u - 

 p 1 e u r u m is not quoted. 



