I'oly.Hala fumosmu S. liUulii. Hoi. liaiidl). 11 (\t\)(>) p. Sli: Lwkb. 11. All. Ill, p. 217: 

 Karri, il Kiiil. Kiumi. PI. l"l. .\il. no. liil; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1X12; p. 'MA. no. 

 201; Lt'dc'b. I'M. Ross. I, p. 271. /', i>iil(}(tris sui)sp('i-. cDinosd ('.iiodal, Moiio^r. I'olfifiiilii 

 (18<)3) p. 45:5. P. milgaris /i conwsn Wcnk'v. PI Radd. (18(11) j). 514; Kpr.r.i. <l>.i. .\.it. I 

 (inoi) ]). i:!l. />. hijhndn Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 212. jTah. X, Fig. 1]. 



This t'xci'odini^ly polyniorphou.s specios is abundani in llic Minnsin.sk dishict. 

 will re I iiavo collcclod a raliui- lith nialt-rial. w liicii did not seem to i)c (juitc indcn- 

 lical with any of Ilic nnnicroiis I'oinis and xariclics described IVoni I'.urojje. My male- 

 rial. orit;inalin;4 I'orni \arious localilies in sonllu'iii .Siberia, however, seemed to lie 

 (piile lionu>i;ene()Us. 



The specimens brought home seemed, in various respects, to constitute di.stinct inter- 

 mediates to P. Xic(U'cnse Risso. The stems are numerous, high and vigorous, to 3.'') cm. 

 high, ascending at the base, frequently a little lignified. finely puberulent. generally sim])le 

 or emitting small biamhes al)o\c. each of them lerminatiuL; in a lew-flowered raceme. 

 The lower leaves are comiJiiiatix el v short and bioad, ovale-sj^atnlate. the upper ones lan- 

 ceolate, 2 — 4 cm. long, and 2 — 4 mm. broad, glabrate or slightly eiliate. 1 lie stems are 

 leaved right up to the flower cluster. The raceme is flowery, densely flow ered and pyra- 

 midical when young, later on somewhat prolonged and more loosely flowered, during the 

 flowering commonly 5—7 cm. long, later on increasing to 10 — 12 cm. in length, and con- 

 taining, on an average, 30 — 35 flowers. The pedicels are short, 1,.")— 2 mm. long, slightly 

 wing-angled. The middle bracteole is 3,5—4 mm. long, bluish, about twice as long as the 

 pedicel, broadly lanceolate, later on clapped togettier in a boat's shape. The 2 lateral brac- 

 teoles are .shorter, of about the same length as the pedicel, colourless, membranous. The 

 i)racteoles are caducous early in season. The flowers are very large, considerably larger 

 than in the typical plant. The 3 outer sepals are 3—4 mm. long, ^i — 'A of the length of the 

 wings, broadly lanceolate, of a bluish green colour, and sparingly eiliate. The wings are 

 finely eiliate. large, 7—9 nun. long, and about 5 mm. broad, ovale, obtuse or subaculish at 

 the apex, and furnished wilh 1 greenish, rather coarse, generally unbranched middle 

 vein, and 2 fainter lateral veins, the ramihcations of which are not reticularly connected, 

 or only slightly so. The wings are of a bluish-violet, gradually fading to greenish yellow. 

 The corolla, of a much darker colour than the wings, generally i)rotrudes a httle beyond 

 the latter. The fruit is very shortly .stalked, cunealely tapering below, and cordately in- 

 cised above, narrowly winged at the margin. The present plant seemed in vanous respects 

 to constitute transition between Poljif/dla comosum and l^olijqula Nirncrnse. The rich, 

 rather densely flowered raceme, distinctly tufted when young, recalls the former, while 

 the large flowers and the shape of the wings are most suggestive of Polijqala Xicaeense. 

 The above form is of rather common occurrence in the tracts about the Lower Aba- 

 kan, wheic I have collected it in several places on the steppes between Minusinsk and 

 Ust Abakansk, in dry. grass-grown localilies, in thicket of Caraijana (uborescens, together 

 with |)lanls such as Solidacjo yinjaiirea. Fraqnria viridis. Iris ritlhenica, Stelldria giami- 

 nea, and the like. Flowering and with fruits in the first half of June. 



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