Rather common in the territory explored. In moist thickets and meadows, on 

 river-banks etc., on islets in the river Abakan, in moist pastures, near the banks of the 

 Bei-kem, on the Sebi, as well as on muddy river-banks at the mouth of the river 

 Kemchik. The species flowers in July. The specimens gathered have mostly 2-flowered 

 spikelets, and are therefore to be referred to /. communis Krylow 1. c. 



Distribution: Southern Europe, south-western Asia, Siberia, northern Mongolia, 

 eastern Asia, Sakhalin, Japan, North America. 



Phragmites communis Trin. Fundam. AgrosL (1820) p. 134; Ledeb. Fl. Alt I, p. 

 88; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 1299; Karel.et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 910; Turczan. 

 Fl. BaicaL-Dahur. (1856, I) p. 28, no. 1314; KpBM. $.i. Ajt. VII (1914) p. 1624. Arundo 

 Phragmites L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1762) p. 120; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IV, p. 393. 



On the banks of small lakes, in moist meadows, etc., along the river Abakan. 

 Specimens collected in the middle of June are young, with flowerless culms, only about 

 V2 m. high. 



Distribution: Europe, and temperate portions of Asia, North and South America, 

 Australia. 



Plplachne squarrosa (Trin.) Richter, PL Eur. I (1890) p. 72; Kpbu. cE»jr. A.it. VII 

 (1914) p. 1625. Molinia squarrosa Trin. in Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I, p. 105; Turzan. Cat. Baical. 

 no. 1315; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IV, p. 396; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1856, I) p. 48, no. 

 1342. 



Scattered on the Abakan Steppe, on dry slopes, in dried up beds of brooks, etc. 

 With young flowers at the end of June. 



Distribution: South-eastern Russia, southernSiberia to Trans Baikal, northern 

 Mongolia. 



Eragrostis minor Host, Gram. Austr. IV (1809) p. 15. Eragrostis poaeoides P. de 

 Beauv. Ess. Agrostograph. (1812) p. 162; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I, p. 94; Turczan. Fl. BaicaL- 

 Dahur. (1856, I) p. 42, no. 1334; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IV, p. 381; Kpi.1.1. «Dj. A.tt. VII 

 (1914) p. 1627. 



Rather common at Kemchik-bom, among sand on the river, and on the cUffs 

 near the mouth. Taken with ripe seeds at the beginning of September. 



Distribution: Middle and southern Europe, southern Siberia, northern Mongoha, 

 the East Indies, eastern Asia, North Africa, North America (introduced). 



Eragrostis pilosa (L.) P. de Beauv. Ess. Agrostograph. (1812) p. 162; Ledeb. FL 

 Alt. L p. 95; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PL FL Alt. no. 918; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IV, p. 382; 

 Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1856, I) p. 42, no. 1335; KpBi.T. $.1. A.it VII (1914) p. 

 1627. 



On the banks of the Yenisei, near Ust Abakansk. With young flower-buds at the 

 beginning of July. 



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