414 MR. N. D. SIMPSON ON THE PLANTS OF 
POTENTILLA NIVEA, Linn., var. ELONGATA, Th. Wolf. 
No. 53. Mountain-sides at the head of the Saklya River, above 2100 m.. 
where the soil is moist or in peaty meadows or dry shady slopes where some 
soil has accumulated. 
No. 387. Open dry steppe in valley-bottoms and sandy slopes near the 
Shabash River. 
Distribution. Turkestan, N. Mongolia, and Pamir, Th. Wolf. 
POTENTILLA CHRYSANTHA, Trev., var. ASIATICA, Th. Woly. 
No. 128. Southern aspects from 900 to 1700 m., southern Great Altai 
Mts., Upper Kran River in the basin of the Black Irtish, Dzungaria. 
Distribution (of variety). Turkestan, the Altai, and western Mongolia, Th. 
Wolf. 
POTENTILLA ELEGANS, Cham. et Schlecht. 
No. 373. Highest mountain-tops 1950 m., very dry conditions. Also open 
steppe valley bottoms with dry flora in Shabash Valley, Kamsara, and Kandart 
Mt. Range, Sayansk Mts. 
Distribution, Kamtchatka, Baikal region, Altai, N.W. Mongolia, Ph. 
Wolf. 
POTENTILLA GELIDA, C. А. Mey. 
No. 252 a. Edges of cultivated land bordering the Birch and Pine forest, 
on very friable peaty sand, rolling hills, 350 m. above sea, Kalmakof, 
40 versts W. of Minnusinsk. 
Distribution, Arctic and alpine regions in Norway, Lapland, the Caucasus, 
Armenia, Turkestan, and southern Siberia, 7h. Woly. 
POTENTILLA SUBACAULIS, Linn. 
No. 252 b. Habitat and locality the same as the preceding. 
Distribution, Throughout Russia and Siberia to the Amur Rive er, southwards 
to Mongolia, northern Thibet, and extending into western China, Th. Wolf. 
POTENTILLA FRAGARIOIDES, Linn. 
No. 265. Cultivated land and shade of Pine forests, Kushabar. 
Distribution. Throughout Siberia extending eastwards to Korea and Japan, 
and in N. Mongolia, the Altai, northern China, and Manchuria, Th. Woly. 
POTENTILLA ANSERINA, Linn. 
No. 454. Driest part of valley steppe, Ulu Kem River. 
No. 484. Very dry areas in river valleys, both in sand and flint desert, 
Dja Kul and Ulu Kem. 
Distribution. Temperate regions and alpine parts of warmer countries all 
over the world except in southern Africa, TA. Woly. 
