Stellaria iilij-iiiosii Miiii'. I'lodiom. (KiclliiiL;. ( 1770) p. .')."): Lcdch. Fl. l\oss. I, p. iMCJ; 

 'ruic/.;ui. II. l!:.u;il.-Daliiii. (1X12) p. (iOCi. no. 2 15; Regcl. I'l. Hnfld. ( 1862) p. 281, no. 

 ;V28: i>-|, 1,1,1. 'iM .\.ii. I (imil) ]). 171. Slrllctrid miiutlicit i'oll. llisi. I'l. l>;,l;il. 1 (177«)) no. 

 122: luiczan. (lal. Haical. no. 21(1. Slflliiria Msinr Ueichard. i"l. .Mocno-Francofurt. 

 (1772) no. 28B: Lodch. I'l. .Ml. II, p. 1.')!,. 



In grass-grown plarcs, near Kushabar, nowering in .July. 



Distribntion: Knroi)e. ("ancasia, sonthern Siberia, middle and eastern .\sia. the 

 East Indies, Noilli .\nu'iica. (licTnland. 



Stellaria pelraea Rnnge in T.edeb. Fl. Alt. II, p. KlO: Fenzl in Ledeb. FI. Ros.s. I, p. 

 394: Tnrczan. Fl. Haical.-Dahnr. (1.SI2) |). (i()8. no. 21',); Regei, PI. Hadd. (1862) p. P.Oil 

 no. 340; Kin.i.i. 'Im. .\.it. I {VMl) p. 171. 



On the Abakan Steppe, near Askys, on dry, rocky slopes, in chinks of rocks, among 

 stones and gravel, near the hill-lops, in lull flower in the middle of .June. 



Distribution: The .\ltai region, and further eastwards to the .^moor Province, 

 Mongolia. 



Mochringia lateriflora (L.) F^cnzl, Verbreit..l/.s7n. in Tab. Synopt. (1833) p. 18 el 38; 

 Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 371; Turczan. Fl. Raical.-Dahur. (1842) p. 596. no. 234; 

 Regel. PL Radd. (1862) p. 257, no. 316; Kptu. <^.i. A.ix. I (1901) p. I(i2. Arenariii lulcri- 

 flora L. Spec. PL ed. II (1762) p. 605; Ledeb. FI. Alt. II, p. 173: Turczan. Cat Raical. 

 no. 261. 



I'his species I have found to be rather common in moist, shady thicket oiCaraqana 

 arborescens and Cotoneaster nielanocarpa. on the steppes about the Yenisei, near Ust 

 Abakansk. It is. moreover, of common occurrence in the subalpine wooded tracts 

 between Kushabar and Ust Algiac, and also in alpine regions in the Altaian. Specimens 

 from the different localities prove to be considerably varying. However, all of lliem 

 belong to the form series of Mochrinf/ia laierillora, with obtuse sepals. Forms \vilh 

 acute sepals, distinguished as Mochringia iiinbrosa (BrNCE) Fenzl, do not occur in my 

 material. The specimens vary considerably in the size of the flowers, the shape and 

 size of the leaves, the height and vigorousness of the .stem, and also in the hairiness. 

 Specimens taken by me in the lowland at Minusinsk, are distinguished by glabrous 

 stems and leaves, or nearly so, only the peduncles, immediatly below the flower, being 

 scattered pubescent. These specimens are also characteristic in having the flowers 

 comparatively large, the diameter of which may reach up to 13 mm., i. e. 4 times as 

 long as the obtuse, ovate, glabrous, and slightly scarious-margined sepals, completely 

 nerveless. There occurs for the rest, every transition between this form, which most 

 properly has to be referred to Lglobrescens Regel, 1. c., and the forms iijpica and inter- 

 media. Regei.'s limitation and grouping of the numerous varieties and forms of Moch- 

 ringia lalcriflora seemed, for the rest, not to be maintainable. The descriptions are also 

 so incomplete that most fretjuently it is impossible to unravel them, even if his authentic 



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