divided iiilo Irianj^ular Icrlh. tlic inai-^iii of wliicli is liiicly, hiil dislinclly cilialc. The 

 petals are red, llieir Iota! lengtii about 27) nun., I lie Icuglli ol the lilade inounling lo 1 

 cm., sharply and dislinclly cTcnalc al llie maii^in. Dry meadows on the steppes on the 

 river Abakan, near I'sl Kanuiisblo. wlu-rc- i)oyiiming lo flower in the second half of 

 June; ni'arly jiasl llowcring at [\\c l)cginning of August, in open, dry, sandy woods 

 of larch and ])inc. near Ust Sisli-kcm. and al Ust Kamsara. 



DistriJjution: Middle and south-western Europe, Caucasia, Turkestan lo western 

 Tibet, lluoughoiil Siberia, excepting the most norliiern portions, northern Mongolia, 

 Manchooria, northern China, Corea. 



Dianthus supcrbus L. Anioen. Acad. IV (1759) p. 272: Ledel). Fl. Alt. II. p. 137; 

 Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 216: Karcl. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 148; Ledeb. Fl. 

 Ross. I, p. 285; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1842) p. 568, no. 20:5: Regel, PI. Hadd. 

 (1861) p. 533, no. 227; Rohrb. in «Linnaea», vol. 36, p. 636; Williams, Monogr. Gen. 

 Dianthus p. 411; K|n,i.i. <1m. A.it. I (1901) p. 134. 



Conmion on the sandy banks of rivers along the Upper Amyl. in subal])ine wooded 

 tracts, from Petropawlowsk to Kalna, and along the banks of the river Sisli-kcm. Col- 

 lected in full flower in the middle of July. The specimens are rather vigorous and 

 well-grown, with stems to 70 cm. high, rather flowery, from 2 — 7 flowers. The calyx is 

 comparatively long, to 32 mm., and about 5 nnn. broad, frequently of a reddish or bluish 

 colour, glabrous, and finely striped. The calyx-scales rather short, the inner ones 

 about 1 cm. long, broadest near the apex, where suddenly contracted into a shoil sling, 

 to about 1 mm. long, the outer ones only about 6 mm. long, of about the same shape 

 as the inner ones. The calyx-scales are glabrous, only the teeth being sometimes slightly 

 ciliate. The petals are of a bluish red colour, about 4 mm. in diameter. The leaves are 

 to 7 cm. long and 6 mm. broad, generally about 4 — 5 cm. long, and 3—4 mm. broad, 

 flat, glabrous, slightly scabrous only along the margin, gradually acuminate towards 

 the summit. 



Distribution: Northern and middle Europe, Caucasia, Turkestan, (the Thian Shan), 

 southern Siberia, from the Altai eastwards to Trans Baikal, Mongolia, Manchooria, north- 

 ern China, northern Corea, Sakhalin, Japan. 



N J- ni p h a e a c e a e DC. 



Nyniphaea Candida Presl in Rosllinar (1821) p. 10; Caspary, Nymph. Skand. in 

 Bot. Not. (1879) p. 71: Ki.bo. $.1. Ajit. I (1901) p. 49. Xiimphaea alba L., Turczan. Cat. 

 Baical. no. 87 (excl. syn.); Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 49; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, 

 p. 83. Niimphaea alba L. subspec. Candida (Presl) Korshinsky, (I>.i. RncTOKa Eiipon. 

 Pocciji I, p. 130. Niimphaea pauciradiata Bunge in Ledeb. Fl. Alt. II. p. 272; LedeJj. Fl. 

 Ross. I, p. 84. Nijmphaea Basniniana Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1842) p. 93, no. 84. 



In a pond by the road between Karatus and Kushabar, flowering about the middle 

 of July. The typical Niimphaea alba has not as yet been met with in Siberia. 



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