divided into triangular teeth, the margin of which is finely, but distinctly ciliate. The 

 petals are red, their total length about 25 mm., the length of the blade mounting to 1 

 cm., sharply and distinctly crenate at the margin. Dry meadows on the steppes on the 

 river Abakan, near Ust Kamuishto, where beginning to flower in the second half of 

 June; nearly past flowering at the beginning of August, in open, dry, sandy woods 

 of larch and pine, near Ust Sisti-kem, and at Ust Kamsara. 



Distribution: Middle and south-western Europe, Caucasia, Turkestan to western 

 Tibet, throughout Siberia, excepting the most northern portions, northern Mongolia, 

 Manchooria, northern China, Corea. 



• Dianthus superbus L. Amoen. Acad. IV (1759) p. 272; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. II, p. 137; 

 Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 216; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 148; Ledeb. Fl. 

 Ross. I, p. 285; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1842) p. 568, no. 203; Kegel, PI. Radd. 

 (1861) p. 533, no. 227; Rohrb. in «Linnaea», vol. 36, p. 636; Wilhams, Monogr. Gen. 

 Dianthus p. 411; KpBiJi. ^ji. Ajlt. I (1901) p. 134. 



Common on the sandy banks of rivers along the Upper Amyl, in subalpine wooded 

 tracts, from Petropawlowsk to Kalna, and along the banks of the river Sisti-kem. Col- 

 lected in full flower in the middle of July. The specimens are rather vigorous and 

 well-grown, with stems to 70 cm. high, rather flowery, from 2 — 7 flowers. The calyx is 

 comparatively long, to 32 mm., and about 5 mm. broad, frequently of a reddish or bluish 

 colour, glabrous, and finely striped. The calyx-scales rather short, the inner ones 

 about 1 cm. long, broadest near the apex, where suddenly contracted into a short sting, 

 to about 1 mm. long, the outer ones only about 6 mm. long, of about the same shape 

 as the inner ones. The calyx-scales are glabrous, only the teeth being sometimes slightly 

 ciliate. The petals are of a bluish red colour, about 4 mm. in diameter. The leaves are 

 to 7 cm. long and 6 mm. broad, generally about 4 — 5 cm. long, and 3 — 4 mm. broad, 

 flat, glabrous, slightly scabrous only along the margin, gradually acuminate towards 

 the summit. 



Distribution: Northern and middle Europe, Caucasia, Turkestan, (the Thian Shan), 

 southern Siberia, from the Altai eastwards to Trans Baikal, Mongolia, Manchooria, north- 

 ern China, northern Corea, Sakhalin, Japan. 



Nymphaeaceae DC. 



Nymphaea Candida Presl in Rostlinar (1821) p. 10; Caspary, Nymph. Skand. in 

 Bot. Not. (1879) p. 71; Kptu. Oji. Ajit. 1 (1901) p. 49. Nymphaea alba L., Turczan. Cat. 

 Baical. no. 87 (excl. syn.); Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PL Fl. Alt. no. 49; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, 

 p. 83. Nymphaea alba L. subspec. Candida (Presl) Korshinsky, ijji. BocTOKa Espon. 

 PoccIh I, p. 130. Nymphaea pauciradiata Bunge in Ledeb. Fl. Alt. II, p. 272; Ledeb. Fl. 

 Ross. I, p. 84. Nymphaea Basniniana Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1842) p. 93, no. 84. 



In a pond by the road between Karatus and Kushabar, flowering about the middle 

 of July. The typical Nymphaea alba has not as yet been met with in Siberia. 



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