li iiiu;ilc ;iii(l siiddfiily ciil ol'i, and, besides, puhesceiU al llie margin. The glumes arc 

 jjioadiy scaiious-inaigined and rough — especially so along the keel, which is nearly 

 sliglilly prickly -- and ;5-nerved, of which (he midmost one, the dorsal nerve, projecls 

 into (lie short awn. Tlu' Icnglh of the i'loicts is, to some extent, varying, being rougbly 

 from (he same as llial of tbc yluines to about Va shorter. 



I'rom (lie slcppcs of soulliorn 

 Russia I have seen specimens of 

 Phh'iim liorliiucri siii)spec. Iiti'nr 

 (M. HiKii. spec!) which, in the struc- 

 ture of the glumes, shows some 

 approach towards Ibis one: lb'' ghi- 

 mes in this subspecies arc, bowcvei'. 

 glabrous or nearly cpiile so. Our 

 plant is, for the rest, of the same 

 structure as the typical species. 



Rather common in dry meadows, 

 on hot, stony slopes etc., on the .\ba- 

 kan Steppe, and on the islets in the 

 Yenisei and Abakan. Young, unl)lown 

 flowers in the middle of June. All of 

 the specimens collected belong to 

 subspec. deciirldliini. 



Distribution: Temperate portions 

 of Europe and Asia. 



Alopeciiriis pratensis L. Spec. PI. 

 ed. II (1762) p. 88; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I, 

 p. 74; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 1265: 

 Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1856, I) 

 p. 4, no. 1281; Kpi.i.i. a>.i. A.n. VII 

 (1914) p. 1577. 



snhspec. typicus Ascher.s. el. Graebn. Synops. Mitteleur. V\. II (1898) p. 132: l.'in.i.i. 

 1. c. p. 1578. 



The species varies rather much in the dimensions of tlic panicle, the length and 

 hairiness of the spikelets, and in the breadth and length of the leaves. Collected flowering 

 in June. Rather frequent on grass-land on the islets in the rivers Yenisei and Abakan, 

 and also at Ust Sisti-kem, near the Bei-kem, and at Ust Tara-kem. 



Distribution: Europe, except the extreme south-eastern jiortions, south-western 

 Asia, Siberia, Mongolia, Japan. 



Fig. 7.3. Phlcnin Dochmcri WuiEL subspec. itccurlatuin 



nov. subspec. ('" i) a. SpiUelet. — b, c, d. Glumes. — 



c. Floret, seen IVoui tlie side. — f, g. Pales, seen lioni 



the interior side. 



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