Observations on the Flora of Japan, 



{Continued from Vol. XXIV. p, 305.) 



By 



T. Makino. 



CORRECTIONS. 

 Vol. XXIV. (1910), page 76, line 7 from bottom, for ^(1826)' read '(1835).' 

 „ „ „ „ 299, lines 12 and 17, for ' var.' read ' forma.' 



Ranunculus Sieboldi Miq. Prol. Fl. Jap. in Ann. Mus. 

 Bot. Lugd.-Batav. III. (1867), p. 5 ; Franch. et Sav. Entim. 

 PL Jap. I. p. 8 ; Forbes et Hemsl. in Jotirn. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 

 p. 16; Huth in Bull. Herb. Boiss. Y. (1897), p. 1081. (Fig. I.) 



Ranunculus pensylvanicus var. Sieboldi Ito in Ito et 

 Matsum. Tent. Fl. Lutch. I. (1900), p. 9. 



Ranunculus Hbrosus Tashiro in sched. herb. So. Coll. Imp. 

 Univ. Tokyo, non Wall. 



Ranunculus pensylvanicus var. Hbrosus Ito, 1. c. non R. 

 Ebrosus Wall. 



Perennial, about 12-70cm. long ; roots fibrous, densely 

 tufted. Stems few-caspitose, erect but soon declinate or 

 decumbent and then often radicant at nodes, patently hirtellous 

 as well as the petioles and peduncles, slender, sometimes gracile, 

 loosely few-ramose. Leaves long-petioled but shortly so in the 

 superior ones, rhombeo-semiorbicular in outline, usually trisected, 

 thinly pubescent on both surfaces and ciliated, about 1^— 7cm. 

 long, 2-8cm. broad ; segments usually very short- or sometimes 

 rather long- petiolulate but the lateral ones often subsessile or 

 sometimes shortly petiolulate, broadly cuneate at the base, 

 mucronately acutish or obtuse at the apex, coarsely serrate, 

 the middle one rotund-ovate, 3-cleft, the lateral ones often 

 broader and usually 2-3-cleft ; petiole about 5-18cm. long in 

 the lower leaves, vaginate at the base. Peduncle lateral and 



leaf- opposite, solitary, gracile, patent or erect-patent, 1|— 4cm. 



