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„В. multinervis, DC. var. minor, Led!).". 



I must say at first that the very B. multinerve var. minor, 

 Ledb. according to Ledebour's authentic specimen, probabily 

 also B. multinerve var. minus, DC, is B. trir ad latum, 

 Adams var. In my monograph of Russian Bupleura ^ I have 

 shown a) that B. multinerve, Ledb. excl. var. ß is equal to 

 B, ranunculoides, auct. fl. europ. b) that B. multi- 

 nerve, DC. excl. var. omn., s. st. and B. ranunculoides, L. 

 s. St. are without doubt two modifications (Wettstein's variety) 

 of one same species; the first plant represents a normal forme, the 

 second is an alpine one; it is none geographical difference between 

 them, both „species" are distributed in Europa and Asia. 



T am not a knower in literature of the Japanese floristics, but 

 if I am not mistaken, B. multinerve is firstly mentioned as 

 occurring in Japan by Gray ^, without certain „habitatio". The 

 habitations are enumerated by Yabe and Matsumura, as ad- 

 dition see К i d z u m i ^. The authors of Japanese flora, as it 

 appears, mean recisely the B. multinerve var. minor, auct. 

 post Ledb. (non Ledb,, necDO.) = B. multinerve, Ledb. 

 excl. var. a. 



For the judgement about „B. multinervis" of Japan I can use 

 the following notions: 



1, A specimen from the Sap or о Agricultur College Herbarium: 

 Saruru Sando Hidaka 18 VIII 1884, Mi yabe. 



2, A description by Yabe 1. с 



3, A drawing of the section of a mericarpe given by Yabe 

 1. с t. I f. 13 К 



1 Koso-Polîansky Epitome Bupleur. Rossiae Acta Horti PetropoUt, 

 XXX 2 19 14 133—333 with XIV tab. 



2 A. Gray Observ. upon the relations of the Japan. Flora to that of N. 

 America and of other parts of the N. Temp. Zone. Memoirs of the Americ. 

 Acad, of arts and sciences VI 1 8 5 7 — 5 9 390, 428. 



3 Koidzumi Phytogeogr. survey of Mt. Kiso-Ontake The Botanic. Мадаз. 

 ТоЬуо XXVIU 19 14 120. 



4 The drawings by Yabe are very exact as well as the descriptiones; 

 ihanks to them we can see of once for instance, that Peucedanum mul- 

 t i V i 1 1 a t u m, fig. 67, is in reality a Heracleum, Heracleum lanatum, 

 fig. 67, — is a Peucedanum, Phellopterus littoral is, fig. 58, — is a 

 S e s e 1 i, etc. 



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