J.OC. im.] T. MAKrSO.— OBSKR VATr<)NS ON THE FLORA OF J A iM.V. :]:]<) 



Nom. Jap. Mame-goke, Maruba-inannengusa, Midzu-urashi, 

 Ya ma-dzutai, Iwagane-sd . 



Hab. JAPAN, central and southern. 



The well-developed one attaining about IG cm. in lRi<4ht. 



Judging from its descriptions, Sedum subtile ,1 ac!^piLo>^:i 

 Fr.\nch. et Say. Enum. PI. Jap. 11. p. 367, is S. subtile Min. 

 It has the Japanese name of Hime-renge. 



Erigeron alpicolus Making, nom. nov. (Sect. Euvri- 

 geron.) 



Erigeron duhius var. alpicola Making in Mivosin i- r Making. 

 Alp. PI. Jap. I. (1906), tab. 21, fig. 117 ; Matsi m. Hnum. PI. 

 Jap. II. 2 (1912), p. 646. 



Perennial, attaining about 21 era. in hight in flower. Stem 

 erect, solitary, simple, thinly spreadingly pubescent, but more 

 densely villose under the head, monocephalous, foliiferous, some- 

 times shortly pedunculiform at summit. Leaves thinly pubes- 

 cent on both surfaces, patently villoso-ciliated, triplinerved, 

 mainly entire, sometimes very few mucronato-denticulate, 

 mucronate at the apex; radical ones tufted, long-petiolate, 

 spathulately oval to oblong ; cauline ones alternate, lanceolate 

 or oblong, sessile, but oblong-spathulate and petiolate in the 

 lower ones, the superior ones smaller and laxer, the uppermost 

 one bract-like. Hend 3-3^ cm. across. Involucral scales 

 lanceolato-linear, acuminate, pale-viUose, ciliated, cglandular. 

 Ray.flowers many; ligule purple, spathulato-lincar, usually 

 2-8-dentate at the apex, 12-11 mm. long. Disk-flowers 

 many, vellow ; corolla about 3^ mm. long, somewhat longer 

 than pappus; stvle slightly exserted. Pappus about 3mm. 

 long. Achenc narrow-oblong, puberulent, about 2 mm. long. 



Xoni. Jap. Miyama-adzumagiku. 



Hab. JAPAN, 'central and northern, alpine mountams. 

 This comes near to E. uniBorus Linx , E grandiBorus 

 Hook, and E. dubias Making ( Timnhegii A. Gray). 



