iiuU'iileHl. SDUU'limcs very sli^lilly. hul always so disliiu'llv Dial - wlica coiisideriiij^ 

 Ihis c'liaraclcr — I liavc iioviT toll a doubt whrtlicr even an isolated flower jjeiongcd to 

 llic typical plaiil or to the subspecies 'iiuTziiniiiouu. 'I'lu' kci'l is about 3 — 5,5 mm. loiif}. 

 aud biu(lnu)sl. w lu'i i' passing into Ibc claw . tiuiuslicd with an incision, so as to foi m a 

 very cluuacterisLic appendage, not obscivi'd by nic in specimens of tiie Ivpical plant. Sec 

 fig. 95. '{"lie whole i)lanl is of a fresh green colour. Having taken only flowering speci- 

 mens. 1 do not know whether the pods and seeds differ from the lyi)ical .species. 



'ihis plant has bein found by me on the .\bakan Steppe, near I'sl Kamuishlo. In 

 lull [iowir at the end of .lune. The typical A. siilcaliis does not (jccui' in ni\' collections. 



Distribution .1. siilfiiliis is distributed fioin Ilic soulb-caslcrn part of middle t^urope 

 (.\ustro-Hungary), southern Russia ('?), throughout southern Siberia, eastwards to Trans 

 Iknkal. Subspec. Ttirczaninoiin is jirobably confined to the eastern geografical range of 

 the species. 



A.slragiihis niiillicaulis Ledcb. IL Alt. Ill, p. 295; Bunge, Gener. Aslrcu/. |). 22; lur- 

 czan. Cat. Baical. no. 3.50; Ledeb. I-l. Ross. I. p. ()06; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1842) p. 

 765, no. 3.'57; K'pi.i.i. 'Im. A.it. II (190:)) p. 201. Aslifujitlus hilidus Turczan. PI. Exs; Runge, 

 1. c. p. 22. 



The specimens are cliaraclerislic in having the stems numerous, commonly 4 — 8, 

 rather short, generally only about 20 cm. long, prostrate, .sometimes slightly zigzaggy at 

 the nodes, rigid, ramifieil. with numerous, more or less spreading branches, of a yel- 

 lowish w liite colour below, w here frequently more or less ligneous, higher up of a greyish 

 green or dark green, sometimes nearly bluish colour. Their lower parts are rather densely 

 puberulent, with, short, stiff, white, appressod hairs; in the upper parts the stems become 

 more sparingly puberulent, and gradually shot with black hairs increasing in number, 

 so that the upper parts of the plants, as peduncles, pedicels and calyces, especially the last- 

 mentioned ones, are nearly exclusively beset w itii. black hairs. Some of the marccscent 

 stems from the year before are remaining, and give, together with the spreading branches 

 and the slightly crooked stems, this plant a bushy appearance. The shape of the pinnae 

 is subjected to great variation.s. In my material, all taken within a comparatively con- 

 fined area, may be distinctly dkstinguished between a form with broad leaflets and 

 another with narrow ones. Most of the specimens belong either to one or the other of 

 these types, intermediate forms also occur. Init being comparatively few in number. In 

 the broadly leaved form, which I separate under the name of /'./rt/('/'o//a, the leaflets arc 

 narrowly elleptic, 2 — 4 mm. broad, and 3 — 4 — 5 times as long, broadest in the middle, 

 tapering towards both ends, subobtuse or truncate at the apex. The margin of tine 

 leaflets is generally flat, only rarely slightly revolute. 



In the narrowly leaved form — which I refer as /' anfiiislifolia — the leaflets arc 

 linear to subulate, distinctly acuminate at the summit, and frequently produced into a 

 fine mucro, sometimes to several mm. long. The margin of the leaflets is generally very 

 distinctly recurvate, or the whole leaflets sometimes involute, hi both forms the leaflets 



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