Nov. 1910.] 



MAKINO.— OBSEBV. ON THE FLORA OF JAPAN. 249 



Serratula excelsa Makino, nom. nov. 



Serratula atriplicifolia var. excelsa Makino in Bot. Mag., 

 Tokyo, X. (1896), p. 319. 



Serratula pungens var. excelsa Makino, in sched. herb. Sc. 

 Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo. 



Stem stout, strictly erect, tall. Leaves deltoid, but nar- 

 rowly deltoid in the superior ones, with a wide open sinus and 

 subhastate side lobes at the base, mucronato-acute at the apex, 

 angulato-lobate and mucronato-denticulate on margin, hoary 

 beneath, usually dark-reddish or dark-purplish above when 

 dried. Heads about 1-6, usually aggregate and stoutly short- 

 peduncled at the top of the stem, globose, large, cernuous. 

 Involucral-scales linear-subulate, spinoso-acuminate, entire, sub- 

 carinato-uninerved dorsally, dark-purple, constantly transverse- 

 ly white-arachnoid, about 2mm. broad. Flowers deeply dark- 

 purple. 



Nom. Jap. Habayatna-hokuchi (T. Makino). 



Hah. Prov. Tosa: Dzujiro-mura (T. Makinol Nov. 7, 1885), 

 Ogawa-mura (T. Makinol Nov. 1892), Choja-mura (T. Makinol 

 Nov. 1892) ; Prov. Suo : Mt. Hoben (D. Nikai I herb. Sc. Coll. 

 Imp. Univ. Tokyo, Nov. 3, 1897) ; Prov. Buzen : Mt. Hikosan 

 (S. Hamada I herb. ibid. Oct. 1905) ; Prov. Echizen ? (Herb. ! 

 idid.). 



This species differs from the preceding Serratula pungens 

 Franch. et Sav. by having the leaves with the projecting basal 

 lobes and of a deep colour when dried, narrower and much 

 arachnoid involucral scales, and intensely coloured flowers. 



Cirsium maritimum Makino, sp. nov. 



Cnicus brevicaulis Cat. PI. Herb. Coll. Sc. Imp. Univ. Tokyo 

 (1886), p. 109. 



Cnicus japonicus var. brevicaulis Savatier in Iinuma, So- 

 moku-Dzusetsu, ed. 2, XV. n. 38, non Maxim. 



Cirsium brevicaule herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo., non 

 A. Gray. 



? Carduus acaulis Thunb. Fl. Jap. p. 306, non Linn. 



Root perpendicular, elongate. Stem erect, about 35-40cm. 



