ON THE HISTORY OF BOTANY IN JAPAN. 227 
particularly in Ono Ranzan’s ‘Honzs Kémoku Ke I 
er the accomplishment of this work (‘Honzé Dsusetsu’) that 
Iwasaki began to prepare his ‘Honzo our author 
Another botanist of Owari, Toneri Buhio, published in 1823 a work 
entitled ‘ Sémoku Seifu,’ or the Habits of Plants, which consists of 
three livraisons ; and again in 1827, with the co-operation of many 
botanical friends, he has edited the ‘Iudoku Sdmoku Dsusetsu’ 
(Illustrations and Descriptions of Poisonous Plants), which appeared 
in two livraisons. 
One of the most successful botanists who has appeared in Japan 
since the time of Ono Ranzan is doubtless Iinuma Yokusai. The 
most extensive publication of plants which had appeared up to this 
Honzé Komoku Keim6’ of the former author, written 
0, 
her, accom- 
plished a great task entirely founded upon a scientific basis. 
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6moku D D 
Plants, ohet asuline of twenty volumes or livraisons, arr 
ing to the system of Linneus, is a splendid monument in the 
Unfortunately in these volumes the 
