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carinato-aculiuscula, praecipue basin versus exlus minute hispidula. Petala 

 nulla, Antherae flavae. 



Syn. — Cherleria sibirka Regel et Tiling, Florula Ajanensis, 72 (1858), 

 et in Nouv. Mém. Soc. Nat. Mose. XI. 72 (1859). 



Hab. On bare hüls above Ajan in Lhe Coast Province of East Siberia 

 (the norlhern lirait of the species). 



A variety intermediate but quite distinct from varr. 2 and 4, geogra- 

 phically lar beyond the limits of the other forms of the species. 



Yar. 4, fasciculata (Fisch.) Williams, nom. nov. — Gauliculi puberuli 

 inlerdum elongati semper caespite exserli. Folia 4-12 mm., lineari- 

 subulala vel angusle linearia plana erecto-patenlia apice haud incurva^ 

 obsolete trinervia, glabra vel solum margine puberula. Cyma peduncuiata 

 pluriflora; bracteae conspicuse concavae semi-scariosae. Sepala 3-4 inm., 

 acuminata obsolete uninervia. 



Syn. — Arenaria cheiierise var. ß fasciculata Fisch, in Cand. Prodr. L 

 409; St. petrœa var, a, vegeta, et var. ß, tenuifolia lusus 1, Fenzl in 

 Ledeb. Fl, Rossica,!. 394; St. petrœa var. ß fasciculata Turcz, in Bull. 

 Soc. Nat. Mose. XV. 610 (1842), reimpr. Fl. Baiealensi-Dahuriea, 1. 238; 

 St. Davurica (non W.) Spreng., Syst. Veget. II, 398; St. decumbens 

 varr. 6 et 7, Hook. f. Fl. Brit. Ind. 1. 235; Cherleria sedoides (non L.) 

 Pallas, Reis. Russ. Reich, III. 210 (1776); Adenonema petraeum var. 7 fas- 

 ciculatuni Bunge in Ledeb. Fl. Altaïe. suppl, 36. 



Hab. Northern India : Kashmir (Royle, 1832), along the Chenab and 

 Ravi Valley in Kashmir (Z)"" J. L. Stewart, 1872), Baltistan {Thomson, 

 1847); Punjab, at Lahul (Rev. H. Jaeschke); Sikkim, above Tangu 

 {Hooker, 1849), on the mountain behind lhe bungalow at Tangu at 

 4500 mètres {CM. Younghiisbaud, Tibet Frontier Commission, 1903). 

 Tihet; N. Tihei {Przewalski, 1884), Yatung, lat, 27° 51', long, 88° 35' 

 {H. E. Hobson, 1897), S. Tibet at Put-lo {King's collector, 1884, n. 21). 

 Mongolia : on rocky places (Kiriloff), and on the rocky cliffs of Suma-. 

 hava {Przewalski, 1871), see also Maximowicz in Mél. Biol. IX, 50 (1873), 

 and Fl. Mongolica, 102 (1889). Siberia : Trans-Baïkalia, on the stony 

 désert between the rivers Argun and Onon, by lhe little slream of Sehil- 

 boungou, where the plant was collected by Pallas on 25 May 1772 {Pallas. 

 ex herb. Fischer, — one of these spécimens was sent by Fischer for 

 description in Cand. Prodr.), spécimens were collected also by Radde in 

 the same locality in 1857 (the original locus classicus of the species); 

 near Nertschinsk {Sossnin), on the hills above the mines in lhe vicinity 

 of Nertschinsk {Patrin in herb. Delesserl), at the bitler spring of Pogro- 

 meczen {Bassin in herb. Ledebour), on sandhills above Nertschinsk 

 {F. Karo, PI. Dahuricae, 1889, n. 56, — see also J. Freyn, in OEsterr. Bot. 

 Zeilschr. 1895), elsewhere in the province in stony places {Turczaninow, 

 1830), on rocks and rocky cliffs above the river Schilka and below 

 Gorbiza (s{)ecimens from here in Herb. Mus. Brit., Maxim. It. II, 1859, 

 — see also his Prim. fl. Amur, 60, and Regel PI. Raddeanae, n. 340, 

 [1862]). Amur district : near the conlluence of lhe R, Dsega with the 

 main stream of the Amur {Radde in Herb, PetropoUl,), Manchuria :^ 



