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therarum oblonga neque cvata, pappo breviore, racemo 

 sacpissime denso et statura elata. 



Adnot. Oblata occasione liic exponere liccat tres 

 species inter se valde affines: 



Senecio mongolicm Schultz Bip. (Ligularia mon- 

 golica DC.) a sequente differt: caule solido. foliis laetc 

 viridibus subtus dense elevato-reticulatis, racemo a 

 basi florente simplici denso, bracteis deltoideis pedi- 

 cellisque involucro pluries brevioribus, involucri squa- 

 mis subquinquo, flosculis paucioribus, limbo corolla- 

 rum disci ad medium 5-fido lobis oblongodeltoideis 

 apice pubescentibus, achaenio (juvenili) oblongo, pappo 

 longitudine tubi corollini in disco, rufescente, multi- 

 seto barbellato valde inaequali. 



Hab. in Mongolia maxime orientali et in Cliinae bo- 

 realis alpe Siao-wu-tai-shan. 



S. altaicus ^chiiltzBi]}. inFloral845,50.Trautv. 

 Enum. Schrenk n, 631. Ligularia altaica DC, Ledeb. 

 Fl. Ross. II, 621 (excl. pl. Gmelini et patria omni 

 praeter Altai). 



In montibus AUai: prope Riddersk (Ledebour!, 

 Poiitow!), ad fodinam Syrilnowi (Dr. Ludwig!), prope 

 Smeinogorsk (herb. Fisch.), ad Tschujam fl. (Poli- 

 tow!); in Songaria: raontibus Tarbagatai et Aktschawly 

 (Karclin ct Kirilow!), in graniticis Arassan (Seme- 

 now!), valle fl. Takyr (Potanin!); Mongolia borcali: 

 circa lacum Ubsa ad brachium australe fl. Charkira 

 et in valle fl. Ulan-Natschin (Potanin! 1879); Kansu 

 occidentali alpina, in vicinitate nlpis Dsliachar-dsargyn, 

 alt. ultra 10 mill. ped. s., m. (Przewalski, 1880). 



Planta satis variabilis. Folia radicalia, fere semper 



