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tubulosus pilis albis et nigris vestitus, aaqualiter 5-dentatus, dentibus brevis- 

 simis. Vexilluni oblongum, apice integrum, 19 mm. longum ; alse oblongae,. 

 15 mm. longa?, ungue filiformi ; carina oblonga, caeteris petalis breviora,. 

 rostrata, ungne calyce aequilongo. Ovarium sessile, lanceolatum, semi-bi- 

 localare 8-ovulatum ; stylus villosus medio incrassatus ; ovula ovalia. Legumina 

 ovata v. ovato-elliptica acuta, glabra v. tantum apicem versus villosula,. 

 calyce dimidio longiora. 



Hab. insulis Yezo : insula Kishiri, ad culmen montis ejusdem nomini 

 leg. W. Hirose anno 1896. Fl. et fr. Augusto. 



Kitsuhe. Koko ni shirusbitaru yottsu no atarasbii shuri wa Miyabe 

 Hakase ga kotoshi no haru Tokyo ye kita toki atsuki kokoro wo motte 

 onore ni shimesareta hyohin no ucbi yori eranda no de aru ; kono hoka ni 

 Astragalus frigidus, Bunge var., Oxytropis megalantha, Boiss., 0. nigrescens, 

 Fisch ?, 0. sp. nana, acaulis sericea, ovario distincte stipitato, uniloculari, to 

 iu yona 4-shuri ga arukeredomo imada akiraka ni sadameru koto ga 

 dekinu. 



Observations on the Flora of Japan. 



(Continued from p. 114.) 



By 

 T. Makino, 



Assistant in the Botanical Institute, Science 

 College, Imperial University of Tokyo, 



Rubus pedatus Smith ; Willd. Sp. PI. II. p. 1088 ; Pers. Syn. PL 

 II. p. 52 ; Pursh Fl. Amer. Sept. I. p. 349 ; Hook. Fl. Bor. Amer. I. p. 

 181, tab. LXI ; Torr. et Gray, Fl. North Amer. I. p. 452 ; Ledeb. Fl. 

 Pvoss. II. p. 71 ; Walp. Eepert. II. p. 23 ; Focke in Engl, et Prantl, Dio 

 Naturl. Pflanzenfam. III. 3, p. 29. 



Perennial unarmed herb. Stem filiform, long creeping, nearly glabrous, 

 rarely divided, rooting at nodes. Branches short, erect, 1-3-leaved, thinly 

 pilose. Leaves atternate, laxly placed, erect, long-petioled, trisected, or 

 pedately quinate by the division of the both lateral leaflets, firmly mem- 



