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New or Little Known Plants of Japan. 

Stem smooth, simple, 2 3 to more than 4 feet high. Cauline leaves petiolate, reniform or cordate, 
palmately 3 to more than 10 lobed, smooth on the upper, somewhat hairy on the under surface, finely 
ciliate at the margins; the lobes cuneate-oblong, acuminate, coarsely dentate and also scattered with mucronate 
teeth, 2—3—lobulate, the lobules acuminate; petioles shortly sheathing at the base; lower leaves 8 inches 
or more across, the petioles 4 inches or more long; upper leaves 4—6 inches across, the petioles $—Ig 
inches long; the uppermost much reduced in size, passing into ovate or lanceolate bracts of the in- 
florescence. Heads homogamous by the want of rays, tubular or tubular-obconical, about 6 lines long, 
ュー-2 lines broad, in terminal panicles of 6 一 ro inches; the axis of the inflorescence nearly smooth or 
slightly pubescent; the pedicels of the heads pubescent, }—2 lines long. Bracteoles at the base of the 
heads 2, ovate, somewhat hairy, 3 line long. Scales of the involucre 3—5, imbricate, of two forms, the 
narrower onter overlapping the margins of the broader inner; both linear-lanceolate, acute, 4 lines long; 
the outer 4 line broad; the inner scarious at the margins, r—14 lines broad. Receptacle flat, naked. 
Florets yellowish-white, 3 一 -6 in each head. Tappus-hairs copious, dirty-white or brownish, about as 
long as the corolla, minutely barbellate under the lens. Corolla tubular, very narrow towards the base, 
broader above, 5—lobed at the apex, about 4 lines long; its lobes linear-lanceolate, recurved when fully 
open. Anther-bases obtuse. Style-arms recurved, pubescent. Ovary linear, 14—2 lines long.—Hab. 

