. The Botanical magazine. Plants; Plants -- Japan. 146 BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. [Vol. XVIU. smaller ? bracteoles setaceous, slightly longer or shorter than spiculte. Spiculse lato-lanceolate, at- tenuatedly acuminate, acute at the base, compressed, glabrous, pale fulvous, about 7 mm. long, with1 perfect flower below and1very minute rudimentary flower above. Glumes deeply navicular, carinate with a smooth and viridescent edge, membrana- ceous, pale towards the base ? empty ones 4-6, oval-ovate, the lower ones gradually smaller and shorter; flowering ones 2, much larger than empty X JO ones, the infe
. The Botanical magazine. Plants; Plants -- Japan. 146 BOTANICAL MAGAZINE. [Vol. XVIU. smaller ? bracteoles setaceous, slightly longer or shorter than spiculte. Spiculse lato-lanceolate, at- tenuatedly acuminate, acute at the base, compressed, glabrous, pale fulvous, about 7 mm. long, with1 perfect flower below and1very minute rudimentary flower above. Glumes deeply navicular, carinate with a smooth and viridescent edge, membrana- ceous, pale towards the base ? empty ones 4-6, oval-ovate, the lower ones gradually smaller and shorter; flowering ones 2, much larger than empty X JO ones, the inferior one lato-ovate with an acute or acutish tip, the superior one largest and ovate with an obtuse tip, 6-6i mm. long. Setae 6, delicate, filiform, smooth, irregularly flexuous, white, unequal in length, the longest one alittle exceeding the rostrum of the achene and about 5-5J mm. long, the shortest one about equal to the middle of the rostrum. Stamens 3, slightly exserted ? filament slender, filiform, glabrous, some- what exceeding the rostrum of the matured achene, about 6?mm. long. Achene rounded, compressed, suddenly short-stipitate, very shortly produced at the apex, with an obtuse margin, transversely rugulose towards the centre of faces, yellowish umber, 2 mm. and alittle more in length including the stipitate portion ? rostrum slender, longer than the achene, but very much narrower than it in width, gradually attenuated above, sessile atid truncate with a free edge at the base, compressed, vindescent. Nora. Jap. Mikuri-gaija (nov.). Hah. Prov. Mikawa : Futakawa (Z. Uimmura ? no. 90, Sept. 7?1904). Isoetes japonica A. Br. Vide supra. Stock attaining 8 cm. in diameter. Caudex-lobes thick, deltoid, obtuse, perpendicular or divergent, nigrescent, densely emitting roots on the inner side. Leaves attaining 200 or more in number and114 cm. in length (so in the submersed or nearly submersed one), 6 mm. across in the base above the phyllopode. (To be continued.). Please note t
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