Yonisci and Aliakaii. ^v]u■I■(' il l)cgins flowering al llio tnul ot Juno. The species is also 

 toninion alioul Karalus and lvuslial)ai'. 



Disliilnition: Europe, south-western Asia, southern Siberia. 



Fragaria vesca L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1762) p. 709; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. II. p. 232; Turczan. 

 Cat. Baical. no. 406; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II. p. 63; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1843) p. 604, 

 no. 397; KpbT.i. (D.i. A.aT. II (1903) p. 397. 



Common between Minusinsk and Kushabar and in the Amyl valley, on dry. sunny 

 hill-slopes, where I have found it w itii ripe fruits in the middle of ,Iuly. Taken by me in 

 the Urjankai country, near Ust Algiac, and near the mouth of the Kamsara. 



Distribution: Europe, Siberia, to 63° north lat., northern Mongolia, the Caucasus. 

 Asia Minor, the Thian-Shan, Afghanistan, North Africa, tlie Canaries, North and South 

 America. 



Fragaria viridis Duchesne, Nat. Hist. Fraisiers (1766) p. 135. Fragaria collina Ehrh. 

 Beitr. zur Naturk. VH (1792) p. 26; Ledeb. Fl. Ah. II, p. 233; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 

 407; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 296; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II. p. 64; Turczan. Fl. Bai- 

 cal.-Dahur. (1843) p. 605, no. 398; Kpbi.i. 'D.i. A.n. II (1903) p. 398. 



This .species I have met with in the tracts about the Lower Abakan. Between Ust 

 Abakansk and Minusinsk I have collected it with buds and fully opened flowers at the 

 beginning of June. It grows here in thicket ot Caragana arborescens, together witii Iris 

 rulhenica. Solidago virgaiirea. Aster alpinns. Stellaria graminea. and others. Most of the 

 specimens belong to t. lijpica A.scnKiis. et Gr.\ebn. (Synops. VI (1903) p. 655), and have 

 the stems to 15 cm. high, and the young leaves densely silver-hairy. The lateral leaflets 

 are wholly sessile, while the terminal leaflet frequently has a stalk 2 — 3 mm. long. The 

 shape of the leaflets is somewhat vaning. ovate, or mostly oval, with a broad summit, 

 neaz'ly square cut. The whole plant is beset w ith long and rather dense hairs, frequently 

 of a slightly yellowish colour. 



Besides the typical form I have also collected specimens with 1 or 2 quite small 

 pinnae on the petioles below the ordinary leaflets (f. subpinnata Cel.vk. Prodr. Fl. 

 Boehm. (1874) p. 634) and forms with much prolonged runners, (f. flagellifera Schur, 

 Enum. PL Transs. (1866) p. 186). Near Lzuik, I have collected it at the end of June, 

 with half ripe fruits and much prolonged calyx-lobes, to over 1 cm. long. These speci- 

 mens are also distinguished by their extraordinary floweriness. The species also occurs 

 scattered in the Urjankai country, where I have observed it at Ust Kamsara and near the 

 Dora Steppe. 



Distribution: Europe, the Canaries, south-western Asia to llie Thian-Slum, Siberia, 

 northwards to Krasnoyarsk, northern Mongolia. 



Comarum palustre L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1762) p. 718: Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II. p. 62; Kpu.T. 

 <I>.i. A.iiT. II (1903) p. 39;5. Pulentilla paliislris Scopoli. Fl. Carniolica ed. II (1772) p. 359; 



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