1903.] OBSERVATIONS ON THE FLORA OF JAPAN. 59 



Perennial, attaining 35 cm. or more in height. Stem erect, but 

 ascending at the base, loosely and strictly ramose, glabrous. Leaves erect- 

 patent, lanceolate, acutish, attenuated below into petioles which are shortly 

 connate at the base, entire, subscabrous and narrowly hyalino-margined, 

 glabrous, thickish, usually shorter than internodes. 2 J-7 cm. long, 5-12 mm. 

 wide. Flower solitary, pedicellate, 2|-3 cm. across ; bracts 4, subadpressed or 

 erect-patent, usually shorter than the calyx, green and thickish above, the 

 outer ones lanceolate, acuminate with an obtuse tip, scabrous on the margin, 

 scarious-margined below, the inner ones shorter than the outer, ovato- 

 lanceolate, attenuated above, scarious-margined below. Calyx oblong- 

 cyhndrical, glabrous, striate, about 2 cm. long, 6 mm. across ; teeth erect, 

 deltoid-lanceolate, acutish or obtuse, scarious and subciUated margined, 

 5-nerved, 6~Q mm. long. Petals 5, 3J cm. long ; limb patent, lato- 

 subrhomboid, laciniate with linear acuminate teeth, not barbulate, 11 mm. 

 long, 15mm. wide ; unguis slightly exserted, large, about 2J as long as 

 the limb, about 25mm. long, broadly linear, gradually attenuated below, 

 glabrous-margined, with 3 main nerves. Ovary clavato-oblong, about 

 11mm, long ; styles filiform, about 16mm. long ; gynophore vei*y short. 



Icon. linuma^s Somoku-Dzusetsu, VIII. fol. 24 recto, no. 23, sub nom. 

 Hama-nadeshiko. 



Hah. Hokkaido {L. BceJimer ! herb. Sc. Coll. Imp. Univ. Tokyo). 



Rare. This seems to grow in littoral place. 



Dianthus superbus Linn var. mo]3|icola Makino, var. nov. 



Perennial, 15-33cm. in height. Stems erect, but ascending from the 

 obliquely repent rhizome at the base, usually simple or sometimes pauci- 

 ramose, slender, glabrous, the internodes 2-5 J cm. long. Leaves erect- 

 patent, angustato-linear, acuminate, 4-8cm. long, lj-3mm. wide, gradually 

 attenuated below, shortly connate at the base, entire, finely scabrous on 

 the margin, 5-nerved, green, not glaucous. Flower often large, solitary, 

 usually pedicellate, 3|-5Jcm. across, pedicel usually lj-4cm. long, sometimes 

 extremely short, glabrous ; bracts 4, erect, the outer ones subulato-linear, or 

 ovato-subulate, narrowly acuminate, shorter or longer than the calyx, 

 scarious-margined below, 10-25mm. long, the inner ones shorter or slightly 

 longer than the outer, elliptical, subulato-acuminate, scarious-margined, 11- 

 14mm. long. Calyx cylindrical, 21-26mm. long, about 5mm. across, 

 glabrous, striate, viridescent often shaded with purple ; teeth erect, lanceolate, 

 mucronate, 9-nerved. Petals beautifully deep-rose ; limb patent, cuneato- 

 orbicular, deeply fimbriate with narrowly linear long lacinae, barbulate below 



