Iv short, nearly ovoid, and very densely flowered: the leaves are comparatively long, 

 equally narrow, to 12 tin. long, and 1,7 cm. broad. Of rathei- common occuiTence in 

 swampy places, in still creelvs, etc.. along the rivers Abakan and Yenisei, near the Kam- 

 sara. and on flood-plains at Ust Tara-kem. The species begins flowering in the first half of 

 June. 



Distrilnition: Temperate regions of Euro])e, Siberia, nol■th^\ards to 62 10' noilh 

 lat. in the government of Tobolsk, and to 66° 30' in the government of Yeniseisk, east- 

 w ards to Kamtchatka, northern Mongolia. Manchooria, Sakhalin. Japan, North America. 



Glaux maritima L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1762) p. 301: Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I. p. 274; Turczan. Cat. 

 Baical. no. 929: Karcl. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 720: Ledeb. Fl. Ross. Ill, p. 23: Tur- 

 czan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1849) p. 304, no. 772; Herder, PI. Radd. (1872) p. 411. no. 92; 

 Kpbi.i. $.1. A.IT. Ill (1904) p. 822; Pax et Knuth, Primiilac. in Engl. Pflanzenr. H. 22 (IV, 

 237. 1905) p. 319. 



subspec. peduiiciilata nun. siibspec. [Tab. XIV, Fig. 2]. 



Ah forma liipica di/fcrl lloribiis (lislincle stipitatis — pedunciili 1 — t?..) //)/?!. longi: 

 capsiihie fere piiri/onues. (tpire prohirUie. (iciiminatde. nee (jlubusne. nialnrae 3~'i mm. 

 longae. 



The specimens collected by me in southern Siberia, are generally of a rather slen- 

 der growth, 18 — 20 cm. high, usually simple, more rarely branched, strict, sometimes 

 decunibenl. according to the habitats. The leaves are comparatively narrow, nearly lan- 

 ceolate, 10—12 mm. long, and the breadth from Yi — Vi of the length, generally with a 

 short petiole, and furnished with a rather indistinct midvein. These specimens, however, 

 are especially characteristic and differing in having the flowers pedicelled, usually com- 

 paratively long-pedicelled. The j^edicels are genci'ally 1 — 2 mm. long; specimens with 

 pedicels measuring even to 2,5 nnn. have ])een observed by me. The pedicel is, like 

 the whole i)lant, glabrous, more or less striate. The length of the flowers is generally 

 from 2,5 — 3,5 mm., not differing from the typical species. The stamens are of about the 

 same length as the calyx. The capsule, however, is characteristic in having the top di- 

 stinctly protruding, so as to give it a pyrifoi'm appearance; the length of the fruit is 3 

 to 4 mm. 



In the tloras in most common use, this species is recorded to have sessile or nearly 

 sessile flowers, as is also the" case in the work liy Pax et Kmth, quoted above, where is 

 recorded: „Flores sessiles"; the fruits ai'e, moreover, I'eported to be globular, both of which 

 characters also seemed to agree with the material of this species taken from various parts 

 of the globe, and used by me for comparison. In KptuoBb. $.i. A.ixaji III (1904) p. 822, 

 however, the flowers are recorded to have short pedicels, and the fruits to be globular, 

 with protruding tops, a statement accordingly agreeing with my observations. It is therefore 

 just possible that the subspecies pedunculata is widely distributed over Siberia- where 

 forming an eastern race of the species Ghiii.v mfirilimd. 



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