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scabrous, the outer ones provided with second radii, the outmost one 

 sometimes attaining 6 cm. long, the interior ones shorter and monostachyus. 

 Bract nigro-viridescent excepting the apical portion ; bracteoles and spiculte 

 nigro-viridescent. G-lumes 1-nerved. Setse 6, delicately filiform, antrorsely 

 scabrous above, complicate, pale-fulvous, slightly exceeding the style and 

 about 6i mm. long in fruit. Stamens 3 ; filament filiform, lower than 

 the style. Achene obovato-oblong, compressed and trigonous, smooth, stra- 

 mineous, mucronulate with the very base at the style, Ig mm. long ; style 

 exserted, deeply 3-fid, the branches ferruginous, densely and patently papil- 

 lose, shorter than the main portion which is glabrous. 



Nom. Jap. Tahane-hurosuge (T. Makino). 



Hah. Prov. EikuchU : Mt. Kurikoma {T MaUnol Aug. 1890); Mt. 

 Hayachine {C. Wagaioa ! n. 179, July 1900 ; 0. Sato ! n. 115, July 28, 

 1902 ; G. Toba ! n. 76, Aug. 8, 1903). 



The setae not becoming cottony in fruit. 



Alsine macrocarpa (Pursh) Fenzl ' Verbreit. Alsin. in tab. ad p. 

 18,' et in Ledeb. Fl. Boss. I. p. 353. 



Arenaria macrocarpa Pursh Fl. Am. Sept. I. p. 316 ; Spreng. Syst. 

 Veg. 11. p. 399 ; DC. Prodr. I. p. 405 ; Cham, efc Schlecht. in Linnaea I. 

 p. 55 ; Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. I. p. 101 ; Torr. et Gray Fl. K Amer. 1. 

 p. 182 ; Eegel PI. Eadd. I. 2, p. 354, excl. syn. plur. ; Kobins. in A. Gray 

 Syn. Fl. N. Amer. I. 1, p. 247. 



Alsine r}%acrocarpa a., typica et /9. sibirica Eegel 1. c. p. 356, tab. 

 1, figg. 6-11. 



Arenaria arctica var. /?. grandiflora Hook. 1. c. p. 100, tab. 34, fig. B. 



Alsine arctica var, hreviscapa Eegel. 1. c. p. 347. 



Arenaria heteromalla Eudolphi in herb, ex Fenzl in Ledeb. 1. c. 



Alsine Jooi Makino in Bot. Mag., Tokyo, XVII. p. 12. 



Alsine macrocarpa var. Jooi Makino 1. c. p. 38. 



Flowers 7-10 cm. long ; pedicel attaining 8 mm. in length. Petals 

 apparently exceeding the sepals. Styles 3. 



Add. Hah. Prov. Shinano : Mt. Yatsugatake {H. Taheda \ July 27, 

 1903), Mt. Yarigatake in Minarai-adzumi-gori {T. limoril Aug. 1903). 



Gentiana (Chondrophylla) nipponica Maxim, var. Kawakamii 



Makino, var. nov. 



Perennial, 5-14 cm. in height, glabrous, densely intricato-csespitose 



