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have enumerated the more strikingly beautiful ones which may some day 

 be found of great interest in our gardens. The flora of Japan is more 

 or less essentially a woodland flora. Even up to ten thousand feet on 

 Ontake San low scrub of Leucothoe and Andromeda is found. Therefore 

 it may well be imagined that the larger proportion of plants seen by the 

 wanderer in Japan belong to the sylvan class. Many species of Arum, 

 Asarum, Arisaema, and Arisarum abound. Aquileyia ecalcarata and 

 A. flabellata are attractive species that frequently occur. Ancmonopsis is 

 only a southern plant, but anemones are abundant all over the country, 

 from the big dingy cernua and graceful dichotoma to the minute flaccida 

 and Baddeana. Several species of Coptis occupy shady woods, where 

 Schizophragma creeps about everywhere, and Pyrola uniflora occasionally 

 occurs. The genus Primula is represented rather more often by Sieboldi 

 than japonica ; iris by sibirica ; campanula by C. punctata and platy- 

 codon. Though very many Japanese plants are unsuitable to cultivation 

 over here, and of little more than botanical interest, there are no doubt 

 many lovely plants that have yet to be introduced which will certainly 

 prove of great valus and interest in our gardens, and I shall be very glad 

 if the few suggestions I have made are in any way useful in directing the 

 attention of horticulturists to them. 



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