Epilohiuin davuricum Fischer in Honn'in. Hort. Hafn. Supplem. p. 44: Hauss- 

 knecht, Monogr. (iatt. Epilobium (1884) p. 145; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 454. E. pa/us/rc 

 L. ;- albescens Wahlcnb., Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II, p. 109. E. palnslre /? l\uczan. Fl. Baical.- 

 Dahur. (1844) p. 224, no. 444. 



In moist, grass-grown places, scattered in tiie Ann! Laiga. Near Ust Algiac, in 

 swampy places. I have collected some specimens of a thin and slender form, recalling, 

 in many characters, Epilobium pctluslre. The stem, wanting stolons and distinct leaf 

 rosettes at the jjase, is very slender and fine, only about 0,5 mm. thick, w^eak, and 

 more or less winding, 15 — 20 cm. high, I'eddish below, gi'een above, round, or slightly 

 quadrangular, finely bilaterally pubescent, always simple and one-flowered. The leaves 

 are always opposite, sessile, with a plane margin, only with a single vein, linear, 1 — 5 

 mm. broad, and 15 mm. long, the lower ones comparatively broader, the upper ones 

 mostly narrower, the margin entire or only very finely and indistinctly serrulate and 

 ciliate, subobtuse at the apex. The flower small, 4 — 5 mm. long, nodding. The caly.v 

 glabrate or pubescent, its lobes about twice as long as broad, obtuse or slightly acutish 

 at tlie summit The petals 4 — 5 mm. long, white. The capsule sparingly pubescent.. 



In point of external habitus the present plant resembles Epilobium davuricum. but 

 the absence of leaf rosettes, the more or less bilateral hairiness of the stem, the opposite 

 leaves, and the sparingly hairy capsules are characters recalling Epilobium palustrc. It 

 is possibly to be regarded as tlie bastard between the.se 2 species. The specimens are 

 also very suggestive of specimens of the haslard Epilobium dainiricumy(palusire, v^hich 

 I have seen in the herbarium of the University at Christiania. My material, however, 

 is to scarce for a quite sure decision. 



Distrii)uti()n : Epilobium davuricum is distributed in northern Europe, northern 

 Asia, southwards to northern Mongolia, North America. 



Circaea lutetiana L. Spec. PI. eck II (1762) p. 12: Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II, p. 113: Kpuj.. 

 •ki. A.IT. II (190S) p. 435. 



Near Kusliabar, in shady thicket of foliage trees, in moist places. Collected with 

 flower-buds in the middle of July. The leaves are rather narrow. 6—8 cm. long, and 

 2 — 3 cm. broad when full-grown, rounded at the base. 



Distribution: Europe, northwards to southern Scandinavia, the Caucasus and 

 south-western Asia, Siberia, eastwards to the Amoor Province, the Himalayas, Japan, 

 North Africa, North America. 



Circaea alpina L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1762) p. 12; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I, p. 42; Turczan. 

 Cat. Baical. no. 455; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II, p. 114; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dnhur. (1844) p. 

 226, no. 446;KpLi.i. «I).i. A.it. II (1903) p. 436. 



Among mosses in shady, moist coniferous woods at Ust Sisti-kem, near the banks 

 of the Bei-kem, and near the Dora Steppe, on decayed, moss-grown stumps of trees. 

 Nearly past flowering, and with partly ripe fruits in the first half of August. 



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