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disk-flowers the appendage longer than the stigmatiferous portion and 

 papillose-hairy. Ovary narrow, pilose. Pappus rather copious, longer 

 than ovary ; setee white, delicate, scabrous, erect-patent in fruit. Ache- 

 mum cylindrical-clavate, 2J mm long, thinly and sparsely pilose with white 

 hairs, longitudinally striated. 



Nom. Jap. Okina-gusa, Aoyagi-so. 



Hab. Prov. Tosa : Side of River Niyodo-gawa (T. Mahino\ 1884, 

 Nov. 2, 1887, Oct. 1892; K. Watanabel herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. 

 Tokyo, Oct. 30, 1891). 



A remarkable variety which is perhaps specifically distinguishable from 

 the type. 



Solidago Virgaurea var. linearifolia Matsumura in sched. herb. Sc. 

 Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, and Catal. PL Herb. Coll. Sc. Imp. Univ. Tokyo, 

 1884, p. 96 differs from my plant. The former is perhaps merely a form 

 of Solidago Virgaurea Linn., having only narrower leaves. 



Many of Solidago Virgaurea in Japan does not belong to var. 

 leiocarpa A. Gray ( = Amphirhapis leiocarpa Benth.), which frequently 

 occurs in the southern part of this country. 



Macroclinidium trilobum Makino Illustr. Flor. Jap. I. ined. n. 

 12, tab. LXXI. 



•Perennial, 3-9 decim high. Ehizome ligneous, short, oblique, with 

 the bases of former stalks and elongate numerous fibrous roots. Stem 



erect, simple, terete, slender, glabrous, rather densely scaled at the base 

 but very loosely so at the middle portion. Leaves ample, sparse and 

 loosely approximate on the upper portion of the stem, nearly patent, 

 long-petioled, larger broader and trilobate in inferior ones, gradually smaller 

 and ovate in form in superior ones, rounded or broadly truncate-rounded 

 moreover slightly short-decurrent to the petiole at the base, shortly acumi- 

 nate with a mucronate tip, coarsely dentate with mucronate deltoid teeth, 

 glabrous above and usually very thinly villoso-pubescent on the nerves 

 beneath, scabrous along the margin, chartaceo-coriaceous, triplinerved at the 

 base, largest ones about 13-16 cm long, 14 cm broad ; lobes ovate, shortly 

 acuminate, slightly longer in the mid-lobe, sinuses usually narrow and 

 obtuse at the bottom ; nerves prominent beneath ; petiole slender, terete, 

 glabrous, thickish at the base, canaliculate at the upper side, longest one 

 about 13 cm long. Inflorescence terminating the stem, moderately densely 

 paniculate with divaricate and strict peduncles and numerous heads, 

 bracteate ; rachis as well as the upper portion of stem more or less flexu- 



