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feet floret, which is beset with long hairs. The perfect floret 

 never reaches as high as the two male florets; as a rule it is 

 abt. 1 — 2 mm. shorter. 



Var. sachalinensis is thus distinctly divergent from the usual 

 East-Asiatic form, Hierochloe dahurica or glabra, in its large, 

 coarse growth, the strongly developed leaves on the fertile stem, 

 the ver}' closed and rich inflorescence, which is not expanded, but 

 as a rule compressed, and further b}^ the large spikelets with 

 the glumes 1 — 2 mm. longer than tlie pales. 



In contrast to the European form, which it somewhat 

 resembles in point of habitus, it is distinguished — apart from 

 the well-developed leaves on the fertile shoots — by its smooth 

 pales only the margin of which is hirsute, and the close, long 

 hairs of the sheath, which are distinctly downward-pointing. 

 With regard to this last character, by the \\ay, I have in the 

 coUections of this species at the University of Christiania found 

 some few specimens from Norwa}^ with distinctly, albeit not very 

 prominently hirsute sheath, a feature which is said to have 

 proved constant for the latter on cultivation. In these Norwegian 

 specimens, moreover, the leaves were fairly markedly long-haired 

 on the upper side, which is not the case with var. sachalinensis. 

 The leaves of the latter, on the other hand, are distinctly rough, 

 both on the upper and under side, being beset with series of 

 fine spines. 



Found in a moist meadow, where specimens with young 

 flowers were collected on the 27th May. 



Liliaceae DC. 



Hemerocallis Middendorffi Trautv. et Mey. 

 In full flower 8 July. On dr}' sunny hills. 



Lilium davuricum K. Gawl. 



In flower 3 July. On dry sunny hills, together with the 

 last mentioned. 



Fritillaria camtschatcensis K. Gawl. 

 Flowering 21 — 26 June. On the sea shore. 



Polygonatuni humile Frisch. 



In bloom 15 June. By moist meadows. 



Gagea luiea K. Gawl. 



In full bloom 21 May, in moist meadow. 



Trilliiim obovatiim Ledeb. 



With young flowers 25 May. In shady swampy spots near 

 banks of slreams. 



