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221<br />

1O1O. Polyporus, Jap. Rokkaknshi ; a variety of the<br />

preceding growing rarely in mountains. The stem in divided<br />

into many branches, but not provided with pileus, though<br />

it has<br />

a brown part at the head. The whole shape resembles antlers.<br />

Note. Ornamental plants are very numerous, and those<br />

described in this chapter are only a part. Among wild plants,<br />

there are many ornamental plants with beautiful flowers, variegated<br />

leavers, dwarf forms, ete. Many plants growing in mountains and<br />

valleys are also ornamental. Especially ornamental garden-plants<br />

are very numerous with leaves and flowers of various colours<br />

stripes, spots, variegations, sizes, shapes, etc., and some of them<br />

have more than hundred varieties ;<br />

so among their varieties only<br />

ne or two were described hi this chapter. Ornamental gardenplants<br />

described in other chapters are Hibiscus manihot (o57),<br />

Valeriana oflicinalis (436), Aconitum chinensis (482), etc. ;<br />

ornamental<br />

pot-plants are Fetasites japonicus (67), Caspicum longum<br />

(107), Orithia exypetala (258), etc. ;<br />

and ornamental plants for<br />

vase-flowers are Brassica chinensis (48),<br />

Chrysamthemum coronarium<br />

(62),<br />

Pueraria thunbergiana (251), etc.<br />

CHAPTER XXV. OK.NAMKNTAL PLAXTS LOJ: COVKKIXQ<br />

AM> SHADING THE GKOUND.<br />

This Chapter contains the plants used for lawns, and those<br />

planted n river-banks, sea-coasts, mountain-cliffs, or mounds toprevent<br />

sand from falling down are also metioned here.<br />

1O11. Ophiopogon japonicus, Cawl^ Jap. Riimo-hige,<br />

Jano-hige : an evergreen herb of the order Liliaceae, being a<br />

veriety of O. spicatus (467) with narrow leaves. It grows wild in<br />

bamboo-Woods and forests. The leaves are about a foot long,<br />

gi-owing in tufts, in summer it produces peduncles, and bears 6-<br />

petaled purplish flowers in panicles, being succeeded with blueround<br />

pea-sized berries. Jt thrives well in shady places under<br />

trees.

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