228 ON THE HISTORY OF BOTANY IN JAPAN. 
author treats simply those plants which are generally known 
herbs, but he entirely neglects trees or more properly those laita 
which have ligneous stems, both the figures and descriptions of 
which are said to remain still in manuscript. A ae — has 
‘Before bringing my brief remarks on the history of botanical 
studies of Japan to an end, in order to serve as a short response to 
it may not be altogether useless to say a few words upon some of 
the principal publications of my grandfather, from the time of the 
= Saperpaes of his ‘Taisei Honzo Meiso ’ in 1828 up to the present 
ryi 
which, although the three kin gdoms of Natural History are 
embodied, that of the Vegetable is treated with special attention, 
ntaining descriptions of many n nd rare plants, as well as 
illustrations of those which are not found in other books. This 
Ohmi, Musashi, Mino, and Shinano, have already cniaiet in 
eleven volumes or Livraisons d interval between 1873 and 
rie : 
each acco 
a few parts of the third volume have lately appeared. His latest 
work, which will be also conti ued, is a on t. istory 0 
Plant whose flowers are admired an, bearing the title of 
Kwashi Z ’ (Flo: Historica), and published among the 
sactions of the Imperial Academy of : moir 
may perhaps be of st to advanced students of Botany, 
because, besides deal: 
with morphological characters of plants as 
well as their economic properties, he mainly devoted his attention 
to various oe records, For the sake = clearness, I may take 
his labotits represent. Tea (Camellia Thea ) is lant whose 
ently disputed by various Pao aa Thus 
Alph. DeCandolle, in his “Origine des Plan a ntes Cultivées,’ hesitating 
sertion of it spontaneous growth in Japan, says :— 
‘“‘ Thunberg believed the ee. to be wild in Japan, but Franchet 
and Savatier a absolutely deny this. Fortune, who has so carefully 
examined the cultivation of tea in China, does not speak of the wild 
t...... It is probable that it exists in the mountainous 
