Tokyo); Prov. Samashiro: Kyoto (i.e.!); Prov. Buzen in Kyushu: Mt. 

 [wagadake (l.c ! July 17, 1882): Prov, Shinano : Mt. Togakushi-yama 

 (I.e. ! July 12, 1884; S. Matmdal July 28, 1893); Prov. Uzen : Shoryuzi- 

 mura {T. Nagazawa ! June 12, 1892) ; Prov. Ise : Tsu, cult. (Z. Umemura ! 

 June 1893); Prov. Sagami : Mt. Hakone {T. MaHno\ Sept. 10, 1886), Isl. 

 Enoshima, cult. (T. Makino ! April 22, 1891). 



This species grows in the mountainous districts, and is characterized by 

 the absence of the pappus and the taper-shaped involucral-bracts. Some- 

 times we meet with sharply dentate- and narrowleaved forms. 



Hisutsua cantoniensis DC. (= Matricaria cantoniensis Lour.) is according 

 to some creditable authors a synonym of Aster indicus Linn. ( = Boltonia 

 indica Benth. ; Asteromcea indica Bl.), and the latter one is figured on 

 J. Banks' Icones selecue plantarum, 1791, tab. 29 by E. Ksempfer under the 

 name of the Aster hispidus [non Thunberg Flora Japonica p. 315, excl. 

 syn. Ka3mpf. Amcen. exot. fasc. V. p. 876.], this is the commonest herb in 

 this country, popularly called Yome-na, and evidently a species different 

 from my plant. It is also readily distinguished from Aster incisus 

 Fisch., which does not occur in this country, especially by the absence of 

 the pappus, involucral-bracts which are not fusco-marginate, and leaves 

 which are not inciso-serrate. 



Asteromcea is by no means to be considered more than a section of 

 the Aster, as we find no sufficient characters to keep it as a distinct genus. 



{To be continued.) 



