Disliibiilioii: SouUurn Siberia, eastwards to llio Ainoor Pioviiico. Maiirliooiia. 

 Corea, soulhei-u China, Sakhalin, Japan. 



Lampsaiia communis L. Spee. Pi. ed. II (1763) p. 1111: Ledei). Fi. All. I\. p. 100; 

 Lcdcb. Fl. Ross. II. p. 770: Kpi.i.i. <I).i. A.ir. Ill (1904) p. 72;'). 



Here and lliere about tlie Lower Sisti-keni. amont^ dry. stony debris, in thickets, 

 etc. In flower and in part done flowering at the end of July and the beginning of August 



Distribution: Europe, except the most northern parts and the sf)uth of the Balkan 

 Peninsula, Caucasia and soulii-western Asia, Cashmere, soutliem Sii)(iia, eastwards to 

 towards Lake liaikal, Nortii .\fnca. 



Tragopogon pratensis L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1763) 1109. 



var. orienlalis (L. spec.) Herder, PI. Radd. (1870) p. 100, no. 21 1; Kjilli. <1'.i. A.m. 

 Ill (1904) p. 729. r. orienlalis L., Ledeb. Fl., Alt. IV, p. 157; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. FL 

 Alt. no. 537: Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II, p. 786; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1848) p. 93, no. 691. 



Pretty common in somewhat dry meadows on the Abakan Steppe, and in open 

 brush-wood on islets in the river Abakan, about Kushabar, at Ust Algiac, and at Ust 

 Sisti-kem. In flower in June and July, with fruits in August. 



This variety is readily distinguished by its large heads of a dark or orange j'ellow, 

 and ])y having generally the leaves rolled back into a spiral. There seemed, however, to 

 occur intermediates to the typical plant. 



Distribution: The species is distinbuted over the greater part of Europe, except the 

 extreme north and south, Caucasia, south-western Asia to the Thian-Shan. Tibet, tlie 

 Himalayas, Pamir, souUiern Siberia, eastwards towards Lake Baikal, northern Mongo- 

 lia. The variety orienlalis is especially to be found in the eastern area of the species, 

 ranging westwards as fas as north-eastern Germany. 



Scorzonera aiistriaca Willd. Spec. PI. IIL p. 1499. 



var. linearifolia Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1848) p. 95, no. 692: KpM.T. <I).t. A.rr. 

 Ill (1904) p. 732. S. graminifolia a angnstifolia Ledeb. Fl. Alt. IV, p. 161. i'. aiislriaca 

 Willd., Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 700; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 541; Ledeb. 

 Fl. Ross. II. p. 792; Herder, PI. Radd. (1870) p. 100, no. 215. 



Pretty common on the steppes about the rivers Yenisei and Abakan, where I have 

 collected specimens in full flower in the month of June. The material of this species 

 brought home, is characteristic in having the stems low, one-flowered, only 4 — 10 cm. 

 high, thus, as a rule, shorter than the basal leaves, and destitute of stem-leaves, or only 

 with few, short, small, nearly .scaly ones. The basal leaves are narrow, 3 — 6 mm. broad, 

 1, to 3-nerved. frequently undulate at \he margin, or the whole leaf sometimes much twist- 

 ed into a spiral, now and then conduplicate. Ibis variety is probably indentical with f. 

 slenophfjlla Beck v. M.xnnaoetta, Fl. Nied. Oester. II (1893) p. 132.5. 



Distribution: Middle and south-eastern Europe, south-western Asia to Russian Tur- 



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