liaviiiii Ihe ovaries ylabrous, never liairv („Genniiia villusa" Li;ijkh. F1. All.). Knvuow 

 also reports 1. c: ..Uuimai. DO.iociiCTaii". It appears from the following statement of I.eoe- 

 liorn's that the ripe fruits have been unknown to him: ..Fructus maturi desunt" (Fl. 

 .Ml. ) and ..gerniinibus villosis, fructihus. . . ." (F"l. Ross.). Nor does Kini.ow seem to 

 know liie ripe fruits, as he does not mention them in his description of the species. In my 

 sjiecimens the ripe fruits are about 1 mm. in diameter, glabrous, or, examined by means 

 of a powerful lens, very finely and slightly warty on the surface, but never hairy. 

 Whether the fruits be warlv in the way described when fresh, or the warts be produced 

 by the drying, I nuisi leave unsettled. Li;i)i:iiorH s statement of the leaves being .,hori- 

 zontalia" does not agree with my specimens either, in which Ihey are more or less 

 appressed, only with the exception of the lower ones. The stems are cfuadrangular, glab- 

 rous, except below the nodes, where they are finely, but distinctly pubcrulent. For the 

 rest, the specimens agree with the earlier description. The pedicels, of about the 

 same length as the bracts, are angular and sulcale, frequently nearly winged, glabrous, 

 or tlu'v mav frequently be Ihiniy s]ninkled with short, stiff bristles. In distinction of llu' 

 form described here, I })ropose the one descrilied by LKOEisorH to be entered as /'. 

 (/rniiiiKi. 



Occurring on the steppes on the Yenisei. Iictween Minusinsk and I'st .\bakansk, 

 N\here collected by me with flowers and a few ripe fruits, .lune 30th. 



Distribution: Near Smejov (Ledebour. I'l. \\[.). and near Minusinsk. 



Galium veriim L. Spec. PI. ed. II (17<)2) p. 155; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I, p. 138: Turczan. 

 Cat. Baical. no. 567; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PL Fl. Alt. no. 412; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II, p. 414; 

 Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1845) p. 315, no. 557; Herder, PI. Radd. (1864) p. 221, no. 24; 

 Ivpw.i. $.1. A.IT. Ill (1904) p. .561. 



Tiic most common form of this one is /'. leiorariJiiin DC. with glabrous fruits. The 

 stems, especially in the lower parts, are always covered with dense and fine, short, downy 

 hairs, while the leaves, as a rule, are glabrous, at any rate on the u]iper side. This form 

 appeared to be the most common one in the territory explored. 



Besides, I have collected near Kushabar, on dry hills, some specimens of /. Inichij- 

 (■(trpiim DC. (/'. l<isi(>c(ii])iini l.i:ni:ii., (i. nilheniciiin W'li.i.i)., Ledeb. Fl. .\lt. I, }). 138), 

 with hairy fruits. Besides, the stem and the under side of the leaves in this form being 

 always covered with very short and dense, downy hairs, the upper side of the leaves, as 

 well, is frequently found to be beset with more or less scattered hairs. Intermediates be- 

 tween the said forms did not appear to be rare either. 



Rather common in the territory explored, especially in dry meadows and on dry 

 hills, on sunny declivities, etc., on the islets in the river Aliakan, and on the Abakan 

 Steppe, in several places between Minusinsk and Kushabar, at l^st Sisti-kem, near Ust 

 Kamsara, at Ust Tara-kem, and on the Tapsa, On the Abakan Steppe the species does not 

 begin flowering till the end of June. 



Distribution: Europe, except the extreme northern regions, Caucasia, south-western 



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