Ill shady lliickris near llic hanks ot Ihc Lower Sisli-kem. and al UsI Tara-keni. Y\w 

 spechnt'us arc ])aill\' ])asl llow t'lini; hi Auyiisl. 



var. multicaulis (Ledel).) Tiaulv. 1. c. K|ii,ij. 1. c. V. /n;////Vr/;;//'.v Lcdel). FL All. Ill, 

 p. 345; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 378; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 272: Lcdel). FL 

 Ross. I, p. ()78: Turczan. Fl. Raical.-Dahur. (1842) p. 789. no. 365. 



In opcMi woods of birch and other foliage trees near the river Abakan. Young flowers 

 in Ihe middle of June. Varies considerably as to the pubescence. 

 ' Distribution: The species is distribuled in eastern Russia. Russian Turkestan, south- 



ern Siberia, northern Mongola. 



Vicia cracca L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1763) p. 1035; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. Ill, p. 349; Turczan. Cat. 

 Baical. no. 376; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 275; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 674; Tur- 

 czan. Fl. Raical.-Dahur. (1842) p. 790, no. 366; K])u.i. <D.i. A.it. II (1903) p. 333. 



Common in thickets and meadows in the tracts about the rivers Yenisei and 

 Abakan, at Karatus and Kushabar, in subalpine wooded tracts along the Amyl, at Ust 

 Algiac, near Ust Sisli-kem, and al L^st Tara-kem. 



The specimens collected vary considerably as lo the pubescence and the floweriness. 

 The specimens are generally rather flowery, the raceme is sometimes considerably longer 

 than the axillary leaf, and the number of the flowers varying between 12 and 35, as a rule 

 20 — 25. The corolla is 11 — 12 mm. long. The number of the leaflets is 16 — 20. As to the 

 pubescence there seemed to occur all transitions between /. geniiina Trautv. 1. c. and/". 

 canescens Trautv. 1. c. which both of them are only lo be considered as modifications 

 in consequence of the habitats. The latter form seemed to be the most frequent one in 

 the steppe region about the river Abakan, upon tlie whole in dry places, the former in 

 the wooded tracts and in more himiid haljitats. In thickets on the banks of the Y'cnisei. 

 near Minusinsk I have collected specimens of f. lilacina (Ledeb.) Trautv. 1. c. (\'. lilacina 

 Ledeb. Fl. Alt. Ill, p. 348: Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. (375;Kpbi.i. 1. c), and between Karatus and 

 Kushabar specimens of a white flowered form. /'. albijlora Trautv. 1. c; Kpi.i.T. 1 c. In 

 subalpine wooded tracts about the lipper Amyl I have collected a slender and fine form 

 with comparatively few pinnae, and each specimen only with one raceme, containing 6 — 8 

 flowers, the corollas of which are comparatively smaller, only 9 — 10 mm. long. Seemed 

 to agree well with /. depaupemla Domin in Fkdde, Repert. I (1906) p. 13. The species 

 has been found in flower from June to August. 



Distribution: Europe, the Caucasus, Asia Minor, Turkestan, Siberia, northern Mon- 

 golia, norlhern Cliina, Corea, Sakhalin. Japan, North Africa. North America, Greenland. 



Vicia costata Ledeb. Fl. All. Ill, p. 346; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, ji. 677: Kpi.i.i. <l'.i. A.ti. 

 II (1903) p. 335. 



On ojK'n. rocky .slopes on the river Ulu-kem: with partly empty pods at the end 

 of August. 



Distribution: Southern Siberia and northern Mongolia, about from Semipalatinsk 

 to towards Lake Raikal. 



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