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I have seen in the nature — in a wild and cultivated state — as 

 well as in herbarium collections,— many a thousand of exemplares 

 of B. г a nuncul oides, L. s, st. and B. multinerve, DC. 

 s. St. and therefore I do not at all hesitate to affirm that the above 

 mentioned plant from Japan is not identic with two last ones. The 

 more important distinguishing features of Japanes plant and B. 

 ranunculoides are fallow 



B. mult in er vis, auct. Jap. B. multinerve, s. I. (Ledb. 



Secondary transverse nerves ■ Secondary transverse nerves 



very numerous. usually none. 



Bractlets green, narrow, with Bractlets yellow, very broad, 



1 — 3 nerves. with 5 — do nerves. 



Oil tubes (ducts) three in the Oil tubes solitary in the intervals 



intervals and 4 — 6 in the and two in the comissur Ч 



comissur. I 



By the first glance of the Miyabe's specimen I begin to think 

 that I have affair with some member of the group of B. longi- 

 caul e, "Wa 11.1; an assiduous study oblige me to refer the cited 

 specimen to „B. Leveillei, De Boissieul", which represents, 

 according to my opinion, a peculiare depauperate alpine form -^ 

 with broad bractlets, of B. 1 о n g i r a d i a t u m b г e v i r a d i a t u m; 

 there are in my disposal numerous intermediary specimens, directly 

 connecting „B. Leveillei" with „B. sacha linense", for in- 

 stance from: 



a, Xiko in rupestribus, S a va tie г 1866 — 71 I n° 489 [sub n. 

 B. sachalinense] 



b, Hakodadi, Wilford 1859 [sub n. B. multinerve. Herb. 

 Royal Garden Kew] 



c, ibidem (Chakodate), Maximowicz It. II n" 575 20 VU 

 1861 [sub n. B. sachal.] 



d, ibidem, Albrecht 1861 [sine п.]. 



1 Compare cited sketch by Y a b e and fig. П by D a v i d Etude anat. du g. 

 Bu pi. Гг. ÈcoU Super, de Phartnade Univ. Paris. Année 1900 — 01 n» 7. 



2 "Without any doubt a modification. 



