The plants are i-ather densely beset with pretty long, white hairs, pointing down- 

 wards, their upper half, like the sepals, rather viscid-pubescent. The sepals are scarious- 

 margined, partly of a pretty, wine-red colour. The leaves are rather densely pubescent, 

 to 4 mm. broad, generally, however, only 2 mm. broad, and to 20 mm. long. The petals 

 are 11 to 13 mm. long, the bracts scarious-margined at the summit. Very common in 

 the steppe region about the lower Abakan, especially in grass-grown, not too dry places, 

 where I have taken it in flower and partly done flowering in the middle of June. 



Distribution: Europe, northwards to middle Scandinavia, Caucasia, Turkestan, 

 Siberia, Mongolia, eastern Asia to the north of China, North Africa, northern and middle 

 America, Greenland. 



Stellaria Bungeana Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 376; Turczan. Addenda ad Fl. 

 Baical.-Dahur. (1857) p. XIII; KpBiJi. $.i. Ajit. (1901) p. 165. Stellaria nemorum L. apud 

 Ledeb. Fl. Alt. II, p. 152; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 235; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1842> 

 p. 599, no. 236. Stellaria nemorum /3 Bungeana Kegel, PI. Radd. (1862) p. 269, no. 319. 



In grass-grown thickets, chiefly consisting of Caragana arborescens, between 

 Minusinsk and Ust Abakansk, where it occurs flowering at the beginning of June. All 

 of the specimens collected belong to f. latifolia Regel, 1. c. The same form is also 

 frequent near Kushabar, in the Amyl taiga, and in the Uijankai country, near Ust Algiac. 



Distribution: Eastern Russia, southern Siberia, eastwards to the Sea of Okhotsk, 

 Manchooria, China, Corea. 



Stellaria media (L.) Vill. Hist. PI. Dauph. Ill (1789) p. 615; Ledeb. Fl. Alt H, p. 

 153; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 236; Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 377; Turczan. Fl. 

 Baical.-Dahur. (1842) p. 599, no. 237; Regel, PI. Radd. (1862) p. 270, no. 320; Kptiji. $.i. 

 A.1T. I (1901) p. 165. 



This species did not seem to be of very frequent occurrence in the territory 

 explored. In my collections I have, by the way, only some specimens, taken in the 

 village of Kushabar, near a farm-yard, in the middle of July. The stems are unilaterally 

 hairy; the shape and size of the leaves much varying, commonly medium-sized, from nar- 

 rowly ovate to broadly cordiform, the breadth equalling or even exceeding the length. 

 The sepals, which are beset wth scattered glandular hairs, are broadly lanceolate to 

 ovate, rounded at the summit. The petals are about % as long as the sepals. The seeds, 

 about 1 mm. in diameter, are orbicular-reniform, of a chestnut colour, slightly warty, 

 and beset with very fine, long, scattered hairs. The pedicels are commonly from 2 

 to 4, rarely to 10 times as long as the sepals. The specimens seemed to belong to the 

 form oligandra Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 377. 



Distribution: The species occurs nearly all over the globe. 



Stellaria dichotoma L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1762) p. 603; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 

 247; Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. L p. 378; Turczan. Fl. Bacial.-Dahur. (1842) p. 600, no. 

 238; Regel, PI. Radd. (1862) p. 271, no. 321. 



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