78 THE BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. [Voi. xxv. No. 290. 



var. tomentosa Maxim, in Fl. Tang. No. 1-^. 



forma glabriuscula f. n. 



Hah. Hu-nan. (No. 22). 



The form differs from yar. totnentosa Max. by having the 

 back of the leaves almost smooth. In the type sepals are 

 numerous (20-30) as the fig. cited represents, but in var. 

 totnentosa and also in the present form f. glabriuscula, they 

 are 5—7. 



Isopyrum sp. 



Herb, IJdm. high, branching, gracile, pubescent, leaves cau- 

 line ternate, petiole short, sitpules adnate, leaflets 3-partcd, 

 segments obtuse, often toothed (leaflets 7— 10mm. long cxcl. 

 petiolule), fl. in few-flowered terminal panicle, pedicels gracile, 

 sepals 5 oblong, 8mm. long, petals 5 about ^2 the length of 

 sepals, obtriangular, stamens 10, carpels 5, style long, follicles 

 8mm. long, beaked, many-seeded ; seeds oblong, slighth^ atte- 

 nuated at one end, dark brown, covered with minute tuber- 

 cles. 



I. anemonoides Kar. seems to be an allied sp. Ledebour 

 described it as smooth (Fl. Ross. I. 735), which is not the case 

 with the present specimen. 



Hab. Hu-peli. It grows on calcareous rocks ; flowers in 

 March. 



Ranunculus sceleratus Lixx.; DC. Prodr. I. 34 ; Forb. et 

 Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. XXIII. 16 ; Diels in Engl. Bot. 

 Jahrb. XXIX. 331. 



Hab. Hu-pch. 



Nom. Jap. Tagarashi. 



R. ternatus Thunb.; Forb. et Hemsl. in Journ. Linn. Soc. 

 XXIIL 16 ; Diels in Engl. Bot. Jahrb. XXIX. 331. 



Hab. Hu-peh. (No. 73). 



Nom. Jap. Hikino-kasa. 



Thalictrum sp. 



1.5dm. high, smooth, radical leaves sub-3-teruate, others 

 2-1 ternate, leaflets ovate, toothed, round or slightly cordate 



at base, panicle rather loose, fl , fr, 3mm. long, subfusiform, 



with the ventral suture strait, the dorsal convex, 3-nerved on 



