IManl;»t;o maxima AiU)ii, llort. Ki'w. I. p. lol; Lcdol). I'l. All. 1, ji. 11."): LecU-1). Fl. 

 llo.ss. 111. |). INO: llcidir. I'l. Hadd. (1X87) p. f)2. no. (ill: l.'pi.i.i. .|>.i. A.ii. IV(l<JU7;p. 1083. 



Ill opi'ii phut's on i.sitt.s in llic i ivii Ycni.sri, nt'ar L'sl Abakansk. Willi leaves and 

 yoiuif* I'lowcrs ;il Ihc hci^inn'nn^ ol .liilv. 



Di.slrihulion: Middle and eastern Mnroiie. we.slern A.sia lo lUissian Turkeslan. Sihc- 

 ria lo loward.s Lake Haikal. 



l*laiitai>o media !-. Spei-. PI. vi\. 11 (17(i.!) p. i:;ii: l.edcl). k'l. .\ll. I, p. 1 jC; Tnirzan. Cal. 

 Ilaical. no. WM: Ledcb. Fl. Ros.s. 111. j). I<S(I: Tuic/an. I'l. IJaieal.-naliui. ( IS.'j^) p. lOl, no. 

 !i;U: llerdei-. I'l. Hadd. (1887) ji. 03, no. (il2- i;|,i,i.i. <i>.i A.m. IV (1'.)07) p. l(»8(i. 



On llie .\bakan Sleppe. near I'st Kanniishlo. on div bills, on Ibe road between Minu- 

 sinsk and Kusliabar. and sealteied in tiie .\inyl tait^a; llowerin^ in Ibe first jialf of July, 

 nioreoNcr. found lo be lalber ficcpK'ul in Ibe I'ljaid^ai I'ounlry, as foi' instance about Usl 

 Algiac. at l'sl Sisti-ki'iu. and at l'sl Kanisara. 



ixir. Irvilleana l>ap.. Diene. in DC. I'lcdioni. XIII. |). ()'.I7: li'pi.i.i. i\>.\. \.\\. W 

 (15)07) p. 108(i. 



Pretty connuon in sandy j)laces on Ibe islets in Ibe rivers Yenisei and .\bakan. wberc 

 it l^egins flowering in the first balf of June. 



Distribution: Nearly all over Europe, except tin- most norlbern and western regions, 

 soutb-westcrn Asia and Persia to Russian Turkestan, Siberia, northwards lo about 66 

 north lat.. and eastwards lo the .\nioor Province and Manchooria. China, northern 

 Mongolia. Sakhalin. North .\friea. Var. Vrvillcdnd especially in the stejipe region. 



Plantago maritima L. Spec. PI. ed. II (17(i2) p. 1(»: Ledeb. Fl. All. I. p. 148; Tur- 

 czan. Cat. Baical. no. 940: Karcl. el Kiril. Enuni. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 732; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. III. 

 p. 485; Turczan. Fl. Raical.-Dabur. (18;">2) j). 404. no. 935; Herder. PI. Radd. (1887) p. 65, 

 no. 615: K|„,,.t. <I>.i. A.rr. I\' (1907) p. 1088. 



subspec. ciliata nov. subspec. 



Ab forma lijpica dijj'eii laciniis coiolliu' ilcDSf d dislinrlr cilidlis, vuUio bmviuiibiis 

 lalioribiis(iuc. late uinilis, noii ul in fonini li/picd oixilo-lanceoldlis. 



This characteristic subspecies is of rather common occurrence along the salt 

 marshes and in saline soil on the .\bakan Steppe, at l'sl Kamuishto. on the borders of 

 the salt-lake Tagarski osero, south of Minusinsk, and on the I'lu-keni Steppe. It begins 

 flowering about the middle of June. 



All the specimens from the localities mentioned are dislinnuisbed by having the 

 lobes of the corolla rather densely and distinctly ciliate, as also considerably shorter and 

 broader than in the tvpical plant. Ry their short, broad corolla-lobes l!ie flowers arc 

 more suggestive of those to be found in tlu' nearly allied species /'. cdriiidld. The coi'olla- 

 lube is brownish and rather densely pubescent. The flower proper is 3—3,5 nnn. 

 long. The bracts generally reach up to about the sunnnil of the sepals, only the 

 lower ones in each spike being frequently somewhat larger, and somewhat over- 



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