88 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY 
Geogr. range. Russia, from Podolia med the frontier of Galicia 
to Lake Baal and the confines of Mong 
.— Caulis glabriusculus, Ath corymboso-ramosus 
ibique cum 1 foliis plusminus scaber. Folia fiitidors 3. -‘nervia, cetera 
Distrib. That of ant type, in Usaha of te southern gover 
ments and in the Caucasian provinces; at Kra oe ited in prov. of 
Yeniseisk, ry at Lekutex i in prov. ‘of ‘Tkatskaya (Regel a Hordes in 
ull. Soe. ose. sna i.p. 16); in the he of Semirietsliensk, 
ati 2700 ree above the Kungei i Valley, alone Ys north bank of 
the lake of Issyk- rents (Regel, It. fab st -, in Herb. Kew.) ; in the 
rov. of Semipalatinsk, between Lake Nor-Zaizan and the 
: k 
Zaizan (Lehmann, 1840, n. 618, i in Herb. Kew.) ; the arg 2 ee 
of the Kirghiz desert in prov. of Akmolinsk; in p 
near e Inderia, and round the salt-marshes of etal, extending 
southwards into the northern part of the Trans- -Caspian province 
(Karelin, pl. exs. Turkomanice). 
ioe A. acris 8. G. Gmelin, 4. bifidus Nees, Chrysocoma biflora 
. dracunculoides Lamk., C. Tatarica Less., Crinitaria biflora 
Cassini, Galatelia biflora Nees, Linosyris glabrata Lindl, LL. punctata 
Karel. & Kiril., L. Tatarica C. A. Mey., L. aaa var. scabra 
Karel. & Kiril. in Bull. Some Nat. Mosc. 182, p. 3 
f. floribunda aos fere a basi ramosus, ramis eG Folia 
glabriuscula, inferiora 3- Dern, epee ra i-nervia. Calathia 
paullo majora eee in forma 
Hab. Along the R. Ajagus, i “ aan of Semirietshensk. 
Syn. rae Me is Tatarica yar. floribunda Karel. & Kiril. in Bull. 
ae Nat. Mosc. 1842, p. 378. 
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cilenta Oasis tenuis, parce ramosus, cum foliis angusti- 
ob velutino-villos 
ng eR. “Lepsa, i in the Seven Rivers district, between 
~ iaien Monslates and Lake Balkash, in prov. of Semiriet- 
sk. 
Syn. Linosyris Tatarica var. macilenta Karel. & Kiril. in Bull. 
Soc. Nat. Mose. 1842, p. 878. 
ewensis, — Glabriuscula. Folia lstidedlate. neat omnia 
bus plerumque 6 calathiorum. Folia inferiora 44 ctim., media 
By Pr Paapteina 24. ctim. -Flosculi in quovis calathio circiter 20. 
Pappi pili i in floseulo medioeri 76. 
- This isa plant growing in the Herbaceous Ground, Kew Gar- 
dens, labelled ‘* Aster trinervis,’’ in flower in September, and 
in fruit in Oc Among the forms with disk-flowers only, it 
seems to hold a position analogous to that of var. afinis in the 
forms with ligulate flowers, as the glandular dots on the leaves.are 
few and scattered. Mr. Irvin ne, who is in charge of this section of 
the Gardens, tells me that it is of unknown origin, and has been 
there for several years. The plant was received from the Petersburg 
