The stems are low, 6 — 8 cm. long, only slighlly overtopping the leaves. Of pretty com- 

 mon occurrence in the Altaian, above the tree limit, growing among lichens and mosses. 

 Flowering and with half ripe achenes at the end of July. 



Distribution: Arctic Russia and Siberia, Sayansk mountains, northern Mongolia, 

 Trans Baikal. 



Fi";. liri, Crcpis chrysanUia (I.kdei!.: Tchczan. (' i]. 



Crepis sibirica L. Spec. PI. ed. II (17(13) p. 1135; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 711; Karel. 

 et KiriL Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 559; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II, p. 828; Turczan. Fl. Baical.- 

 Dahur. (1848) p. 113, no. 711; Ki.i.i.i. <I>.i. A.ir. Ill (1904) p. 759. Hiemcium sibiricuin L., 

 Ledeb. Fl. Alt. IV, p. 135. Araciiim sibiricuin Sz. Bip.. Herder. PI. Radd. (1870) p. 213, 

 no. 256. 



Scattered at Ust Abakansk, in thickets near the river-bank, with flower-buds at the 

 end of June, and on steep hill-sides at Kushabar, in forest of foliferous and 'coniferous 

 trees. 



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