Odoiitiles rubra (iilil). Fl. Lith. II (1781) p. Vlir. Lcdeb. Fl. Alt. II, p. 424; Tuiczan. 

 Cat. Baical. no. 836: Karel. et Kiril. Eniini. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 645; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. III. p. 

 261; Turczan. Fl. Raical.-Dahur. (1851) p. 322, no. 857; Herder. PI. Radd. (1883) p. 38. 

 no. 499: Rpw.!. $.1. A.rr. IV (1907) p. 952. 



At Ust Tapsa. in waste places; past flowering antl witlt ripe capsules at tbe end of 

 August. 



Distribution: Throughoul Europe, except the most northern parts, Caucasia and 

 south-western Asia to Cashmere and the Thian-Shan. temperate parts of Siberia, north- 

 ern Manchooria. northern Mongolia, North Africa. North America (naturalized from 

 Europe). 



C.ymbaria daurica L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1763) p. 861; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 864; 

 Ledeb. Fl. Ross. III. p. 264: Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1851) p. 325. no. 8.59: Herder. 

 PI. Radd. (1883) p. 66, no. 501. 



Scattered on the steppes about the rivers Yenisei and Abakan, where collected by 

 me with flowers in the first half of June. * 



Disttribution: Eastern Siberia, roughly from the Yenisei to the west, Mongolia, 

 northern China. 



Alectoroiophus major (Ehrh.) Reichenb. Ic. PI. Crit. YIII (1830) p. 975. Rhinanthus 

 Crista galli L., Ledeb. Fl. Ross. Ill, p. 265; Herder, PI. Radd. (1883) p. 61, no. 502: 

 KpH.i. ^.1. A.iT. lY (1907) p. 957. A. Crista galli {L.) Marsch.-Bicb. Fl. Taur. Cauc. 11, p. 

 68; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. II, p. 419; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 830; Karel. et Kinl. Enum. PI. Fl. 

 Alt. no. 642. R. major Ehrh. Reytr. YI, p. 144; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1851) p. 

 326, no. 860. 



It appears from the material collected that the species is rather polymorphous in the 

 territory explored, where there occur both branched and unbranched specimens. In the 

 first mentioned ones the branches are erect or ascending, shorter than the stem, where- 

 by the form recalls /'. lypicits Neuman, but they differ from his description by the 

 fact that there are commonly several pairs of leaves between the upper ramification and 

 the lowest flowers on the main axis. The ripe seeds are distinctly winged. On islets in 

 the river Abakan, near Uibat, I have collected young, not yet flowering specimens di- 

 stinguished by their veiT large leaves, of equal breadth throughout their length, to 8 cm. 

 long, and 1,3 cm. broad. 



Pretty common in moist meadows, along borders of fields, and the like, in the ter- 

 ritory explored. On the Abakan Steppe I have collected it near Ust Abakansk, and at 

 Askys, moreover at Kushabar, Ust Algiac, Ust Sisti-kem, and near the Dora vSteppe. The 

 species begins flowering on the Abakan Steppe in the middle of ,Iune. \Yith ripe fruits at 

 the beginning of August. 



Distribution: Nearly all over Europe, except the extreme south, Caucasia and soutli- 

 western Asia to Turkestan, Siberia, northwards to the Arctic circle, and eastwards to 

 Trans Baikal, northern Mongolia, North America, Greenland. 



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