Stellaria uliginosa Murr. Prodrom. Goettiiig. (1770) p. 55; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 393; 

 Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Oahur. (1842) p. 606, no. 245; Kegel, PI. Radd. (1862) p. 281, no. 

 328; KpHJt. $ji. Ajit. I (1901) p. 171. Stellaria aquaiica Poll. Hist. PI. Palat. I (1776) no. 

 422; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 246. Stellaria Alsine Reichard, Fl. Moeno-Francofurt. 

 (1772) no. 286; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. II, p. 156. 



In grass-grown places, near Kushabar, flowering in July. 



Distribution: Europe, Caucasia, southern Siberia, middle and eastern Asia, the 

 East Indies, North America, Greenland. 



Stellaria petraea Bunge in Ledeb. Fl. Alt. II, p. 160; Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. 1, p. 

 394; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1842) p. 608, no. 249; Regel, PI. Radd. (1862) p. 303, 

 no. 340; Kptu. ^n. Ajit. I (1901) p. 171. 



On the Abakan Steppe, near Askys, on dry, rocky slopes, in chinks of rocks, among 

 stones and gravel, near the hill-tops. In full flower in the middle of June. 



Distribution: The Altai region, and further eastwards to the Amoor Province, 

 Mongolia. 



Moehringia lateriflora (L.) Fenzl, Verbreit.j4Zs//j. in Tab. Synopt. (1833) p. 18 et 38; 

 Fenzl in Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 371; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1842) p. 596, no. 234; 

 Regel PI. Radd. (1862) p. 257, no. 316; Kpwji. $j. Ajit. I (1901) p. 162. Arenaria lateri- 

 flora L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1762) p. 605; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. II, p. 173; Turczan. Cat. Baical. 

 no. 261. 



This species I have found to be rather common in moist, shady thicket olCaragana 

 arborescens and Cotoneaster melanocarpa, on the steppes about the Yenisei, near list 

 Abakansk. It is, moreover, of common occurrence in the subalpine wooded tracts 

 between Kushabar and Ust Algiac, and also in alpine regions in the Altaian. Specimens 

 from the different localities prove to be considerably varying. However, all of them 

 belong to the form series of Moehringia lateriflora, with obtuse sepals. Forms with 

 acute sepals, distinguished as Moehringia umbrosa (Bunge) Fenzl, do not Occur in my 

 material. The specimens vary considerably in the size of the flowers, the shape and 

 size of the leaves, the height and vigorousness of the stem, and also in the hairiness. 

 Specimens taken by me in the lowland at Minusinsk, are distinguished by glabrous 

 stems and leaves, or nearly so, only the peduncles, immediatly below the flower, being 

 scattered pubescent. These specimens are also characteristic in having the flowers 

 comparatively large, the diameter of which may reach up to 13 mm., i. e. 4 times as 

 long as the obtuse, ovate, glabrous, and slightly scarious-margined sepals, completely 

 nerveless. There occurs for the rest, every transition between this form, which most 

 properly has to be referred to i. glabrescens Regel, 1. c, and the forms typica and inter- 

 media. Regel's limitation and grouping of the numerous varieties and forms of Moeh- 

 ringia lateriflora seemed, for the rest, not to be maintainable. The descriptions are also 

 so incomplete that most frequently it is impossible to unravel them, even if his authentic 



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