Paul Amedée Ludovic Savatier

“ This rapid increase is due not only to the researches of European travellers, who have explored the coasts at rare intervals and penetrated more or less into the interior of the country, but also to the persevering investigations of Japanese botanists, who pursue the science with ardour, and have a far larger acquaintance with the vegetation of their country than is generally supposed in Europe. ”

“ Doubtless all the illustrated works have not the same value, but it would be but a hasty judgment to conclude after an inspection of the book Kwa wi, published 150 years ago, that these works can have no interest for the European student of botany. ”

“ Orchideæ. This beautiful family, which is represented in Japan by genera belonging to the most different latitudes, has lately been increased by some very interesting species. Gymnadenia longebracteata, Fr. and Sav., received from Mr. Ito Keiske; Habenaria Florenti, Fr. and Sav., from the Hakone hills; H. Nikoensis, Fr. and Sav., from Niko; Platanthera chlorantha, Fish., from Hakodate; Perularia fuscescens, Lindl., also from Hakodate, a rare species, only known in Siberia; Liparis plicata, Fr. and Sav. ”

“ In the Enumeratio, we have only given three species as belonging to the genus Geranium; I now know five others: Ger. pseudo-Sibericum, Mey., from Niko;—Ger. Wlassiovianum, Fisch., from Hakodate;—Ger. species nova, like the Ger. ”

“ Davuricus, Schultz, the old Cacalia auriculata, De., which M. Maximowicz has frequently observed in the environs of Hakodate.
Miquel only knew three Saussureæ, including among these his Aplotaxis multicaulis which should be called Saussurea Bungei; we enumerate eleven species: S. Bungei ”