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cm 8 PACK & A+ 

Notes on Japanese Plants, XVII. 
COMPOSIT Zi あっ く 科 
Senecio farfareefolius Maxim. in Mél. biol. IX. p. 293, var. humilis Makino, Jap. Aimehomoriso. も 
メ コ ウ モリ サウ. About 2-3 decim. high. Stem erect, flexuous, branching in its upper part, pubescent ; 
branches at the summit all floriferous. Leaves deltoid-reniform, broadly cordate, with the base shortly nar- 
rowed down to the petiole, obsoletely trilobed; lateral lobes also slightly bilobed, coarsely acuminate- 
dentate ; petiole long, without marginal wings. Corymb few-flowered. Involucre cylindrical; bracts 5. 
Florets 5. Pappus-hairs white. Fl. October. 
Tosa: Mt. Kuishi. (Udumaro Yorioka, T. Makino.) 
Taraxacum officinale Web. in Wigg. Prim. fl. holst. p. 56, var, albiflorum Makino, Jap. Shiro- 
tampo. ジロ タン ポ . Scapes tall, erect, 13-4 decim, high. Heads white. Internal involucral-bracts erect, 
linear-subulate, apex subcorniculate ; external ones reflexed, ovate-oblong or oblong-subulate, with a thick 
acute horn at the back just down the apex. Achenes narrowly obovate, slightly compressed, striated, about 
4 m.m. long, muricated on the whole surface, markedly so above ; beak twice or thrice as long as achene. 
F\. April-May. Iinuma. Somoku-Dusetsu XV, fol. fo. 
This variety is distinguished from the var. corniculatum by being larger and by having fewer and 
very much reflexed bracts of the involucre. The achenes of the latter variety are muricated only above 
