Oil (li V, s;iii(l\ liills in oprii piiic-w ooil. ncai- llic sail lake Tagarski oscid al Minu- 

 sinsk, w lu'ic of raliici' I'dninion orcuncnrc. and also on llic Ai)ai<an Slc|)|)(', ni-ar I'sl 

 Abakansi\. 



In ni\ nialcrial IVoni lliosc ic^ions IIum'c occur si)t'cinii'ns willi one solilarv, lii.^ii. 

 C'locl slcni, i< sirirlii I,i;i)i;i!. 1. C, and specimens willi seveial siioilti', decuinijcnl and 

 asccndini^ slenis, ,^ (idscniflcus I,Khi;i!. I. (\ In lull llown in llie lirsl iiall oi'.luly. In llic 

 Urjankai counlry I have found llu' species scallered on dry sleppes on llie river l)ei-i<eni 

 at Tst Kanisara. I'sl 'I"ara-keni and on the riu-kcm, het\\('en I'sl Tap.sa and C.lia-kul, 

 where it was pasl lloweriiii^, bearing fruits at tlie end of August and llie Ijcginning of Sep- 

 tcmbei-. 



Hisli ibiilion: I'^aslern Ixussia, soiillu'in Siiieria. from llic I ral lo llie Aiiioor Pro- 

 vince, noilhern Mongolia, northern China. 



Gcum rivak-L. Spec. IM. ed. II (17(12) p. 717: l.edeb. Fl. All. II. j). 2()5: Ledeb. Fl. 

 Ross. II. 1). 2;;: i;|, 1,1.1. 'Im. .\.n. U (190:5) p. 359. 



Ill slightlv moist, grass-grown jjlaces. in thickets on the banks of the rivers Yenisei 

 and Abakan, where I have collected it with ripe fruits in .hiiie. Scallered in the .\myl 

 taiga, and in meadows, near Ust Sisli-keni. 11 did not seem to be of very freciuenl occur- 

 rence. 



Distribution: luiroiie, except Ihe extreme .south-eastern portions, soulh-weslern Asia, 

 Russian Turkestan, Siberia, northwards lo (>2 north lalilude, and eastwards to the pro- 

 vice of Yeniseisk. 



Gciim Aleppiciim .Tacquin, Icon. Plant. Rar. I (1781—86) 1. 9;'5 et Collect. Botan. I, p. 

 S,s. (i. slricliiin Alton. Ilorl. Kewensis ed. II, 2 (1811) p. 217; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 400; 

 Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. All. no. 292; Ledeb. Fl. Ros.s. II, p. 22; Turczan. Fl. Baical.- 

 Daliur. (1843) p. 599, no, ;)91: K|>i,i.i. 'I>.i. A.tt. II (1903) p. 357. (i. intermedium Ledeh. 

 Fl. Alt. II, p, 2(i5. 



Very common on the islets in the river .\bakan, and on the banks of the river, in 

 moist and shady thickets of Sali.r and Popiiliis lanrifolid. where I have collected it with 

 young flowers at the end of ,Iuly. Also occurring near Kushabar, and rather common in 

 the Urjankai country, about Ust Algiac, Ust Sisti-kcm. and on the IJei-kem, near Ust 

 Kamsara. the Tara-kem, and the Dora Steppe. 



Distribution: Eastern part of middle and southern Europe, south-we.stern .\sia, Sibe- 

 ria, northwards to about 65" north latiludt'. Russian Turkestan, northern Mongolia, 

 eastern Asia, Sakhalin, North America. 



Coliiria geoidcs R. Br. Flor. Insulae Melville p. 392 (Vermisch. Botan. Schrift. I, 

 1825); Ledeb. Fl. Alt. II. p. 263; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II, p. 21; Kpu.!. *.i. A.it. II (1903) p. 356. 



On the -Vbakan Steppe near Ust Abakan, on slopes, nearly past flowering at the be- 

 ginning of ,lune, on the Lower Sisti-kem, on the Tajisa and near Bjelosarsk. 



Disti ibulion: Siberia (llie most southern portions of the governments of Tomsk and 

 Yeniseisk), northern Mongolia. 



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