Disli ihiilion; luiiopc. Ilic (',;iiuasus. Asia Miiioi- ami wcslcin Asia, Siberia, luiiili- 

 wards (o ai)t)ul (id'.. ikuIIi laliliidc. iioillu'rii C.liina, Xoiiii .MVica, and iiiliddiircd into 

 America and .\iislialia. 



I'rlic-a dioica L. .Spec. 1>I. cd. II (17(;;i) p. 1396; Lcdeb. I'l. .Ml. IV. j). 210: Tiirczan. 

 Cat. Baicai. no. 10(17: I.cdcl). FI. Ross. Ill, p. 637; Tuirzan. Fl. I'.aifal.-I)aluir. (1854, II) 

 p. 3()3, no. 1011: Ilcidci-. I'l. ISadd. (1892) p. 39. no. 1'.)."); K|,i.i.!. <I>.i, A.m. V I'.iODi p. I-J4:}. 



At Minusinsk and Kushabar, in suljalpine wood rc;f<ionK ajjoul Uil- L'j)j)lt Amyl, 

 ('s|)C(.ially near babilalions (Petropawlowsk, Kalna, and other places), Ust Algiac, Usl 

 Sisti-keni, near tlio Doia Steppo. Tapsa, etc. 



Distriinilion: b'uiope, except Ilic arctic rcuions. soulli-wcslcin. ccnlial and noiliu-rn 

 Asia (northwards to ai)oiit 68K'" north latitude), eastern Asia. Sakhalin, .la|)an, Norlh 

 Africa. North and South .America, Australia (introduced). 



Urtica cannabina L, Ilort. Fpsal. (1748; p. 282 et Spec. PI. ed. II (1703) p. 1396; 

 Ledeb. Fl. Alt, IV, p, 241; Turczan. Cat, Baicai, no, 1009; Karel. et Kiril. Enuni. PI. Fl. 

 Alt. no. 816; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. Ill, p. 638; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1854, II) p. 364, 

 no. 1013; Herder, PI. Radd. (1892) p. 42, no. 196; i;|,m.i. (jm. A.n. V (1909) p. 1244. 



In dry meadows on the Abakan Steppe, and near habitations, such as Askys, Ust 

 Kamuishto and Ust Abakansk, and scattered on the sle])pes near the Bci-kem and Ulu- 

 kem, from the Tapsa, westwards towards Cha-kul. 



Distribution: From the Ural, through Siberia to Trans Baikal and Kamtchatka, 

 northern Persia, Russian Turkestan, northern Mongolia, Manehooria, China. 



S a II t a I a c e a e R. IJR. 



Thesium refractuin C, A, Meyer in Bull. Acad. St. Petersbourg VII, p, 340; Karel. 

 et Kiril. Enuni. Pi. Fl. Alt. no. 804; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. Ill, p. 539; Herder, PI. Radd. (1892) 

 p. 342, no. 103. Thesiiini ntino.stim Ledeb. Fl. .Alt. I, p. 275 (excl. synon. praeter Patrin); 

 Bunge, Enum. Alt. p. 14. Thesium pralense Ehrh.. Turczan, Fl, Baicak-Dahur, (1852, 

 IV) p. 470. no. 1002: Kpi.t.i. $.i. A.tt, V (1909) p. 117:'.. Thesium saxatile Turczan. Cat. 

 Baicai. no. 1001, 



Rather common in dry, grass-grown places on the Al)akan Steppe, near Askys 

 and Est Kamuishto, Collected by me in dry. .sandy places, among loose stones, on sunny 

 slopes, and the like, on the islets in the river Abakan. Taken witli flowers and with 

 fruits in June. On the Ulu-kem, near Bjelosarsk, past flowering at the end of August. 

 The specimens collected are quite glabrous, « iijpica Kinr.ow, 1. c. 



Distribution: South-eastern Russia, Russian Turkestan, the Thian Shan, Siberia, 

 eastwards to Trans Baikal, northern Mongolia. 



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