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.sc;ii)(-' is lioiu 1.") lo 2") cm. liigli. ;hu1 i)csct willi iDugli, asci'iuliiii^, riilliiT stiff, scallcied 

 hairs, of a iif,'lit yellowish hiown coloiii-. These hairs qrow darker and denser towards 

 liic ii|i|>cL' |>aii ol Ihc s(a|)c, iinnicdiaU'ly ix'low llic fh)\\('r. The ll()\\ci--l)iids arc nearly 

 f;i()l)ulai'. and covered with lallier dark, nol tjlossy liairs. 'I'lic filanienls. at anv I'ale in 

 dried specimens, are of a greenisli or bluish green colour. Tiie petals are broadly 

 obovalc, or broadly triangular, the upixu" part cut off scpiaie, the margin more or less 

 distinctly indented. The leaves arc somewhat varying, geneially about 10 cm. long, pin- 

 nately divided, with two j)airs of lanceolate side pinnae, .slightly lai)ering towards the 

 sununil. 'I'lw ItMinina! i)inna generally of Ihc same size as the side pinnae. i)ul mostly 

 somewhat broader. Sometimes the leaves may be nearly 2-pinnate. Ihc |)iiniary lobes 

 being pinnatifid or deeply indented. The leaves are covered, on the uppci- as well as on 

 the under .side, with long, rough, scattered hairs, of a light, nearly wiiilc colour. The 

 petioles are mostly glabrous (f. liijnnim pKnuK, 1. c. \). 380). The plant is densely 

 cespitose, surrounded at the base by withering rests of leaves, of a brownish 

 colour. 



Gathered in full flower in the Altaian, at an altitude of al)()ul 2100 m. above sea- 

 level, at the end of July. Occurring there among mosses and lichens, on moist, shady 

 slopes with a northern aspect, accompanying Cnnlaminr bcllidi folia. Ranunculus frif/idus, 



Valeriana capilata. Scdnni Rhodiola. Salices. etc. 



Distribution: Northern portion of the central Asiatic territory, northern Mongolia, 



eastern and north-eastern Siberia lo Kamlchalka. 



Papaver somniferum L. Spec. PI. ed. II (17(12) p. 72(1; K|ii,i,i. 'l>.i. A.rr. I (1901) p. 52. 



subspec. setigcrum (DC.) Elk, Monogr. (1839) p. 30; r>\ nn., Papaverac. in, <I>.i. Cnnn].. 

 II ,l,a.ii.ii. Itiici. I \U)]'d) p. IS, Papaver seligeruni DC. Fl. Franc. V (Suppl. IsiB) p. 585; 

 Fedde, Papaverac. in F.ngl. Pflanzenr. H. 40 (IV, ](J4, 1909) p. 342. 



.\ few specimens of this one collected by me along the road between Karalus and 

 Ivushabar. In full flower in the middle of July. 



Distribution: A native of the Mediterranean countries, Cyprus, Madeira, the Canai^ 

 i.slands. Scattered in Siberia. 



Corydalis pauciflora (Steph.) Pcrs. Synops. Plant. II (1807) p. 2(19; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. 

 Ill, p. 240; Tu.rczan. C.at. Baical. no. 97; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 97 et 746; Turczan. Fl. 

 Baical.-Dahur. (1812) p. 102, no. 92; Kegel, PI. Radd. (1861) p. 134, no. 1(13: IVpi.i.i, 

 *.i. A.iT, 1 (I'.Kil) p. 55; Rynrb, Papaverac. rrh <1m. Ciiuiiii. ii ^bi.n.ii. liner. I (1913) p. 5'2. 



Some specimens gathered by me in the Altaian, about the limit of tree vegetation, 

 in moist, grass-grown places, near a mounlain l)rooklet. Nearly past flowering at the 

 end of July. 



Distribution: Southern Siberia, northern Mongolia, the Caucasus, arctic America. 



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