Flora of Japan

original: "andra est" ...is present, six anther-bearing filaments are always present along with the pistil, even if five of the anthers were sterile. In Valantia, Veratrum, Maple, Date-plum, Gouania, Begonia, Ash, and Pisonia, pistils are always present, though some of them miscarry original: "abortiunt"; referring to seeds or fruit failing to develop, as happens occasionally in the Sour Cherry and many others. In specimens of Anthospermum, of which I have subjected more than a thousand to examination, I have never found hermaphrodite flowers, but always dioecious ones Dioecious plants have male and female flowers on separate individual plants.

Therefore, it was a mistake to separate Centella, Solandra, and African Mercurialis from Hydrocotyle; Hermas from Hare's Ear; Ginseng and Arctopus from the umbellates Plants with umbrella-like flower clusters; Saltbush from Goosefoot; Grasses from the Triandria Triandria: the Linnaean class for plants with three stamens; False Hellebore from Melanthium, and so forth, into those four superfluous classes.

I have inserted the Palms into their proper classes, from which they have been excluded until this day—I know not why—both in the System of Nature (even the latest edition) and in the Linnaean Supplement.

HABITAT

I have cited the locations where Japanese plants grow based on where I myself found or received them, although these same plants may flourish elsewhere in this vast kingdom. I have indicated these places so that others may find these plants more easily, using the local language or the name by which they are commonly called by the Dutch residents staying there.