Hallu'i coiunu)!! ;is a woccl along roads and on margins of corn-fields, hehveen 

 Minusinsk and Kusliahar. a.s well as on Hr' hanks of the Bei-kem, near Sehi. Willi 

 flowers in .lulv. 



DislriJiulion: lunope, except the arctic regions, the Caucasus, south-western Asia 

 to Turkestan. Afghanistan, llic Himalayas, India. Siheiia (in the Yenisei valley north- 

 wards to about (ilk. north latitude), eastwards lo Trans Baikal and the Sea of Okhotsk, 

 Sakhalin, .Japan, North Africa, North America (introduced). 



Polygonum uiuiuiatuni Murray, Connncnl. (iorll. \' (1771) |). .'!!. /V^/(/f/o/i///;( (ilpiinmi 

 Allioni. I'"l. I'edenionl. 11 (178.')) ]>. 2()(): I,-|,m.i. -Im. A.m. V (1909) p. 11()7. I'ohjcioimm 

 poli/iuorpliiiin Ledeh. Fl. Ross. 111. p. 524 ex |)arle: Herder. PI. Radd. (1892) p. 263, 

 no. 98; Meisner, Monogr. (ien. Poli/fi- p. iifi. no. 11; Meisner. I'olip/. llaule-.\sie p. 

 351 (18). 



sahspec. alpinum (Allioni) Heck in Reichenh. Icon. XXIV (1906) p. 8(j. PoUjqonuin 

 alpimuu .\llioni, Ledeb. Fl. .\lt. 11. p. 79 pro parte; Turc/an. Cat. Baical. no. 972. 

 PoUigoniiin poUjinorphiuu y alpinum Ledeb. Fl. Ros.s. 111. p. .")21. t'oliif/onmn (ilpiiunii 

 It milgarc Turczan. Fl. Baical. -Dahur. (1852, IV) p. 452, no. 978. 



Very common in somewhat moist meadows on the islets in the river Ai)akan. 

 w here collected by me with young flowers in the second half of June. Also common 

 in the Urjankai country, in meadows, and here and there in quite dry places, in open 

 woods of conifers or foliferous trees, ^\llcre. in places, occurring abundantly, Usl Algiac, 

 Ust Sisli-kem: very common between the Kamsara and the Tara-kem, in woods of 

 spruce, larch and birch intermingled, where found by me. past flowering and nearly 

 withered, in the second half of August. 



snhspec. ciliatum (Willd.) Aschers. el Graebn. Synops. Mitteleur. Fl. IV (1913) p. 

 842. Poltifjoniiin pohimorphum d iindulnliim Ledeb. Fl. Ross. Ill, p. 525; Turczan. Fl. 

 Baical.-Dahur. (1852, IV) p. 4.53. no. 978. Poliigoiutm alpinum Ledeb. Fl. Alt. II. p. 79 

 pro parte. 



Apparently occurring much more rarely than the preceding one. In my collection 

 is one specimen of it, taken near Ust Abakansk, towards the end of June. 



Distribution: Southern Europe, from the Alps .southwards, the Caucasus, Asia 

 Minor, Trans Caucasia. Turkestan, Afghanistan, the Himalayas, Siberia, northwards to 

 about 71" north latitude, and eastwards to Trans Baikal, northern Mongolia, North 

 America. 



Polygonum minus Huds. Fl. Angl. I (1762) p. 118; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. II. p. 83; Karel. 

 et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 788; Ledeh. Fl. Ross. Ill, p. .523; Turczan. Fl. Baical.- 

 Dahur. (1852, IV) p. 459, no. 988; Meisner, Polfig. Haute-Asie p. 344 (11); Herder. PI. 

 Radd. (1892) p. 226, no. 79; Kpti.i. tl).i. A.n. V (1909) p. 1166. 



On islets in the Yenisei, in moist, sandy and muddy places, near the banks of the 

 river. With young flower-huds at the end of June. 



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