1903.J OBSERVATIONS ON THE FLORA OF JAPAN. 77 



Yachi-mura (Z, Umemura ! Aug. 24, 1894) ; Prov. Tosa : Mt. Tebako (T. 



31aldno\ Aug. 1885), Mt. Yokogura {T. Mahino\ Aug. 28, 1887). 



Galium Aparine Linn, forma leiocarpum Makino. 

 Fruits quite glabrous. 



Eah, Prov. Tosa: Sakawa {T. 31aldno\ 1889). 

 This form occasionally occurs. 



Asplenium capillipes Makino, sp. nov. 



A pygm^eous fern, often proliferous on the frond. Cauclex short, 

 erect, with fine fibrous roots below, clothed with scales at the top : scales 

 small, subulato-lanceolate, acuminate, subdenticulate, brown, 1-2 mm. long, 

 with fine but conspicuous venules. Stipes caaspitose, spreading, 5-36 mm. 

 long, capillary, deep green, thinly dispersed with very minute scales under 

 lens as is the rachis. Frond ovate to oblong, 5-30 mm. long, 3-15 mm. 

 wide, not thick, deep green, thinly scattered with very minute scales under 

 lens, bipinnatiparted or subbipinnate ; rachis capillary, deep green. Pinnj© 

 patent, alternate or opposite, 1-6 on each side, very shortly petiolulate, 

 rounded- ovate, obliquely lato-cuneate at the base, 1-3-pinnuled or 1-4-fid, 

 2-8 mm. long and wide ; pinnules entire or 2-3-fid, often broadly 

 cuneate ; ultimate lobes erect-patent, elliptical to oblong, entire, obtuse 

 with a minutely cuspidate tip, or acute, about IJ mm. across, l-ncFved. 

 Sori elliptical to oblong, straight, 1 to each lobe ; indusium thinly mem- 

 branaceous, subentire, persistent. Sporangia when mature brown and 

 covering the main portion of pinnae beneath. 



Hah. Prov. Iyo : Mt. Fudzinoishi-goe {Y. and T. YosMnagal Aug. 5, 

 1890); Prov. Shimotsuke : Mt. Koshin (T. Makino \ Sept. 12, 1901). 



This is found on mossy rocks of mountains. It has a resemblance 

 to the small form of Asplenium varians Hook, et Grev., which also 

 appears in Japan, differing from it by the form of its pinnules and 

 segments, and its proliferous habit. 



Nephrodium monticola Makino in Eot. Mag., Tokyo, XIII. 

 (1899) p. 80. 



Corrections. Caudex (p. ibid.), for " oblique '^ read : repent, covered 

 with scales. Stipes (p. ibid.), for " cpespitose " 7'ead : approximately placed 

 towards the apical end. 



