By the drilling investigation in the northwestern part of Zama Hills, we have recognized many pumice beds in the Kanto Loam Formation, including TP (Tokyo Pumice bed), Pm-l (Ontake daiichi pumice bed), UP (Uwabami Pumice bed), ZBP (Zama B Pumice bed), etc.
These beds except ZBP are important key pumice beds in the Kanto Loam Formation and show many similarities to their respective counterparts in the Oiso Hills and the Tama Hills.
ZBP, deposited 30-70 cm under the UP, should be correlated with Tu-7 (or β) pumice bed in the Oiso Hills according to stratigraphy. But, the fact that Tu-7 is much larger than ZBP in thickness makes it hard to correlate them.
For the Tama Hills, on the basis of similar lithofacies, we correlate the ZBP with the pumice bed or pumice lens in “Shimofuri Zone” which is sandwiched between UP and Hmp (Hyoumon Pumice bed). Hmp is generally correlated with Tu-7.
We consider that ZBP is one of the pumice beds which have a possibility to be distributed in the Zama and Tama Hills, but not in the Oiso Hills, provided that the correlation Hmp = Tu-7 is true.

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Chlorophyllum molybdites, a tropical and poisonous mushroom appeared in 1980 at Takatsuki City, Osaka Prefecture, and expanded around the urban area of Osaka, and at the end of the 1980's invaded into the southern part of Kyoto Prefecture and Kyoto City. The reason of survival and expansion of this tropical mushroom in this area are discussed. Four cases of poisoning caused by this fungus are reported including the cases happened in Osaka and Kyoto recently.

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In this paper, a continuation of our previous two papers, 17 taxa belonging to the genera Asterionella, Ceratoneis, Ctenophora, Diatoma, Martyana, Meridion, Synedra, Tabellaria are reported with light and scanning electron microscope photographs. Some comments are made mostly on the taxonomy and morphology of each taxon.

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During 1984-95, studies on the home range, the habitat preference and the activity rhythm of Badger, Meles meles anakuma, using the radio telemetry were performed at Nyugasayama (Mt, Nyugasa), Nagano Prefecture, located at the subalpine belt. Sizes of the home range was calculated by the use of the harmonic mean and other two methods. The sizes calculated by the 95% harmonic mean were 200.5-407.1 ha. The home range size and the activity reduced remarkably during the winter period. Females were active in all the day in their suckling period. Badgers tended to select a certain environment for their habitat. Except in the winter period, they clearly preferred residential area, while avoided Japanese larch plantation.

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Of the 19 Hypnum species known from Japan, the following 15 species are treated, with synonymy, description, illustration, ecology, distribution, selected diagnostic characters and differentiation from alied species: Hypnum dieckii, H. erectiusculum, H. fauriei, H. fujiyamae, H. lindbergii, H. oldhamii, H. pallescens, H. plicatulum, H. plumaeforme (including var. minus), H. pratense, H. saitoi, H. sakuraii, H. subimponens spp. ulophyllum, H. tristo-viride, and H. vaucheri.

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On the bases of about 1,300 specimens collected from Mt. Takao, west of Tokyo Metropolitan. 152 species are recorded Taxa of phytogeographic interest include Bartramiopsis lescurii, Barbella flagellifera, Pyrrhobryum latifolium, and Theriotia khashmirensis.

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The present article reviews the current knowledge of absorption and accumulation of heavy metals and radioactive substances in bryophytes. A number of studies have heretofore given evidence to suggest that bryophytes have unusually high ability to absord and accumulate heavy metals and radioactive substances as compared with other plants, such as vascular plants, and that may indicate the pollution levels in an area under study at that time. We suggest the availability of bryophytes as indicator plants of distribution and pollution level of heavy metals and radioactive substances.

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