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forma purpurascens Makino. 



Peduncle, bracts, blade and petiole purpurascent. Corolla 

 purpurascent above. 



Nom. Beni-buki. 



Hab. Japan. 



/3. giganteus Gard. Chron. (1897) II. p. 311 ; Nichols. 111. 

 Diet. Gard. Suppl. (1900) p. 591. 



Petasites giganteus Fr. Schmidt, ex Trautv. in Act. Hort. 

 Petrop. VIII. (1883) p. 433. 



Petasites japonicus Fr. Schm. Reis. im Amur. u. Ins. Sachal. 

 p. 145 ; Hemsl. in Curtis's Bot. Mag. (1905) tab. 8032, non Miq. 



Much larger. Petiole stout, attaining about 2 m. in height, 

 and 6 cm. in diameter, purplish green ; blade very ample, attain- 

 ing about 1J m. in diameter. Inflorescence robust. 



Nom. Jap. Akita-buki, To-buki. 



Hab. Prov. Iburi in Hokkaido : Side by Toy a Lake (T. 

 Makino !). 



Common in Hokkaido of Northern Japan. 



Chrysanthemum sinense Sabine in Trans. Linn. Soc. 

 XIV. (1825) p. 145. 



Pyrcthrum sinense DC. Prodr. VI. p. 62 ; Maxim, in Mel. 

 Biol. VIII. p. 517. 



a. spontaneum Makino. 



Pyrethrum sinense a. sinense Maxim. 1. c. 



Chrysanthemum sinense a. sinense Makino, 111. Fl. Jap. I. 

 n. 8 (1891) p. 2, tab. 48. 



Stem erect or ascending, slender, densely tomentoso-pubescent 

 and angulate above, loosely branched, foliose above. Leaves 

 glaucescent, densely clothed with pubescent hairs beneath, very 

 thinly puberulent above, sparsely minute-glandular on both sur- 

 faces, submucronato- obtuse or acutish at the apex, usuall}' 

 cordate or truncato-cordate at the base, sinuato-lobed or pinnati- 

 lobed with inciso-dentate or coarsely pauci-dentate or crenate 

 few lobes on each side ; petiole shorter than the blade, densely 

 pubescent, with stipule-form leaflets on both sides of the base. 



