臺灣維管束植物染色體之初步研究（III）

Preliminary Chromosome Studies on the Vascular Plants of Taiwan (III) The Family, Compositae

During the past one year and several months, a large number of flower buds and root tips have been fixed in the field and brought back to the university laboratory. These materials have been studied cytologically and a part of the work has been published in previous papers. This is the third report on the chromosome counts in the series of this study. One of the most common and widely distributed families, the Compositae, is here selected for cytological investigation. Hayata (1904) was the first person who made a thorough taxonomical study of the Taiwan Compositae. He enumerated 39 genera and 77 species based on the limited material available at that time. During the years between 1932 and 1941, a series of taxonomical works were carried out by an aster family specialist, Prof. S. Kitamura (1932, '35, '37, '40, '41) of Kyoto University, Japan.