Gnetaceae Lodley. 



Ephedra vulgaris Richard, Comm. Conif. Cyc. (1826) p. 26; C. A. Mey. Monogr. d. 

 Gatl. Ephedra (1846) p. 270; Ledeb. Fl. Ross.- Ill, p. 663; KpLu. $.i. Ajt. VII (1914) 

 p. 1737. E. monostachya L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1763) p. 1472; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. IV, p. 300; 

 Karel. et. Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 827; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 1077. E. monosperma 

 Gmel. ex Amm. Ruth. p. 178, no. 255; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1854, II) p. 421, no. 

 1078. E. distachya L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1763) p. 1472. 



Scattered on the Abakan Steppe, especially on dry, hot, sloping Devonian cliffs of 

 sandstone, most frequently in chinks facing south, collected with flowers in the middle 

 of June at Ust Kamuishto and Askys, where accompanying Atniphaxis fnilescens. Gathe- 

 red on rocky places, near the banks of the Ulu-kem, on the rock-steppes, at a short 

 distance above Cha-kul, with ripe fruits at the beginning of September. Occurring here 

 together with Giildenstddlia monophijlla. 



Distribution: Southern Europe, Persia, Trans Caspia, Turkestan, Siberia, northern 

 Mongolia, central Asia, North Africa. 



Pinaceae LINDLET. 



Juniperus communis L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1763) p. 1470; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 1073; 

 Ledeb. Fl. Ross. Ill, p. 684; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1854, II) p. 417, no. 1072; 

 Ixpi.i.1. #.i. A.IT. VII (1914) p. 1732. 



Dispersed in the Amyl taiga, south of the Algiac Pass, and on the Sisti-kem. 



Distribution: Europe, Siberia, northern Mongolia, western and central Asia, North 

 America, Greenland, North Africa. 



subspec. nana (Willd.) Loud. Arb. Frut. Brit. (1838) p. 2486; KpMj. 1. c; Juniperus 

 nanaWilld. Spec. PI. IV (1805) p. 854; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. IV, p. 299; Turczan. Cat. Baical. 

 no. 1074; Karel. et. Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 826; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IH, p. 683; 

 Turczan. 1. c. p. 418, no. 1073. 



Dispersed in the Altaian, where to be found below as well as above the limit of tree 

 vegetation, right up to the lichen belt. 



Distribution: Europe, Siberia, northern Mongoha, western and central Asia, North 

 America, Greenland, North Africa. 



Juniperus Pseudosabina Fisch. et. Mey. Animadvers. Botan. ad. Indie. VIII, Sem. H. 

 Petropol. p. 15; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. Ill, p. 682; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (18.54, II) p. 419, 

 no. 1076; Kptur. $.t. Ajt. VII (1914) p. 1736. /. Sabina L. Spec. PL ed. II (1763) p. 

 1472 ex parte; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. IV, p. 298; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 825. 



This species growing in nature not found by myself, but fresh branches I have met 

 with, more than once, among the natives, the so-called Soyotes, at Tshernoretska, as well 



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