Disli-il)uti()ir. 'I'lie species occurs in middle and soulii-caslei ii Imii ope and adjaceiil 

 |)arls of Asia. Sil)eiia. eastwards to Trans Baii<al, norliiein Mon<.;olia. 



r o I e III o II i ii (■ e ii e IK'. 



Polcnioniiini cocruleiim L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1762) p. 2:50: Ledeb. Fl. All. I. p. 232; 

 Turczan. t'.al. Haical. no. 791: Karel. et Kiril. luuun. PI. Fl. .Ml. no. .')*.)."): I.iddi. l'"l. i'loss. 

 Ill, p. 83; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1819) p. 348, no. 805; Herder, PI. Radd. (1872) p. 

 479, no. 14(i; Brand, Pvlnnonidcrae in Engl. Pflanzenr. II. 27 (lY, 250, 1907) p. 37: i;|,i,,.i, 

 *ji. Axr. IV (1907) p. 866. 



The specinu'iis lollerlcd of Ihis rather varying species, arc cliaraclcrizcd hy having 

 the upper parts of llic sicin. the pedicels, and the calyces woolly, and rather densely beset 

 with long-slalkeii glaiuUilai hairs, by which character these spei'iniens much recall viii: 

 rdinpdniildliiin 'Vi\. Vn. The specimens, however, are always very flowery, with a much 

 branched fiower-tlusler: llu' loht's of the corolla arc Mibolusc al llic lo]). iiol (lisliiiclly 

 aculisli. willi ijlaliralc margins. Tills margin of the petals is culirc, or only very slightly 

 and irregularly serrate, only here and thei'e furnished with a single or some few scattered 

 hairs. The flowers arc comparatively small, the f orolla 12 — 1.^) mm. long. 



Scattered in thickets in the subalpine wooded tracts about the Upper Amyl, on the 

 Sisti-kem, and at Ust Kaiusara. In the Altaian I have found it uj) to the tree limit. In full 

 flower in July. 



Distribution: Europe, except the most southern portions, northern and temperate 

 parts of Asia, southwards to the Himalayas and northern TJiina. Sakhalin, .Tapan, North 

 America (Alaska). 



H o r r a !; i II a c e a e LiNDL. 



Anchusa myosotidiflora Lehm. Asperifol. (1818) p. 234. 



yor. graiuiiflora DC. Prodrom. X, p. 50; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. HI. \). 121: h>i,i.i. 'I>.i. A.ix. 

 IV (1907) p. 880. 



Scattered in humid, grass-grown places in the Amyl taiga: nearly jiast flowering 

 about the middle of .luly. 



Distribution: Caucasia, western Siberia, eastwards to the government of Yeniseisk. 



Onosma echioides L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1762) p. 196. 



Udi: C.melini (Ledeb.) Krylow, il>.i. A.rr. IV (1907) p. 881. O. Gmclini Ledeb. Fl. Alt. 

 1, p. 184: Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 612; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. Ill, p. 126; Herder, PI. 

 Radd. (1872) p. .504, no. 159. 



Pretty common in the Minusinsk district and in the tracts along the rivers Yenisei 

 and Abakan, where occuning on dry, stony steppes. Not observed anywhere in abun- 

 dance bv me. Generally occurring singly, scattered on the steppes, where reaching con- 

 siderably higher than the surrounding low steppe vegetation, and — being, besides, of a 



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