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var. leucantha Makino. 

 Flower pure white. Others as in the type. 

 Nom. Jap. Shirobana-dzinchoge. 

 Hab. Prov. Musashi : Tokyo, cult. (T. Makino !). 

 D. odora Thunb. is not the native, and it was formerly 

 introduced from China to this country. 



Raphanus sativus Linn. Sp. PI. p. 669. 



forma raphanistroides Makino. 



Raphanus Raphanistmm Franch. et Sav. Euum. PI. Jap. I. 

 p. 39 ; Forbes et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXIII. p. 49 ; 

 Ito et Matsum. Tent. Fl. Lutch. I. p. 36, non Linn. 



Raphanistrum innocuum Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. p. 7, non 

 Medik. excl. syn. 



Root not thick, hard. Stem ramose, often hispid below. 

 Leaves lyrate and often hispidulous in the lower ones. Flower 

 violaceo-lilaceous. Silique moniliform, more or less striate 

 when dried, the swollen portions shortly attenuated and not 

 truncate at both ends. 



Nom. Jap. Hama-daikon. 



Hab. Prov. Settsu : Snma (T. Makino I) ; Prov. Sagami : 

 Shichirigahama (T. Makinol); Prov. Awa (Boshu) : Amatsu 

 (T. Makinol); Prov. Nagato : Tadanohama (D. Nikail); 

 Liukiu : Kume-shima (H. Kuroiwal); Iye-shima (Y. Tashirol). 



This grows on sandy shore ; it is undoubtedly a form escaped 

 from the cultivated common radish. Never R. Raphanistrum. 

 Linn.! True R. Raphanistrum Linn, is not yet found in Japan. 



Stellaria japonica (Franch. et Sav.) Makino, non Miq. 



Stellaria nemorum var. japonica Franch. ct Sav. Enum. PI. 

 Jap. II. (1879) p. 295. 



Malachium aquaticum Savatier in Iinuma's Somoku-Dzu- 

 setsu, ed. 2, VIII. n. 65, non Fries. 



Perennial, flaccid. Stem at first erect but after anthesis 

 elongate and decumbent. Leaves petiolate, broadly ovate, 



