czan. Cat. Baical. no. 73; Turczan. 1. c. (1842) p. 79, no. 70. A. ochranlhum C. A. Meyer in 

 Ledeb. Fl. All. II, p. 285. A. Lycoctoniini var. Gmelini et var. baihaium Kegel, PL 

 Radd. (1861) p. Ill, no. 116. 



The above is one of the most common species of Aconitum in the territory 

 explored, occurring especially in dry meadows and on declivities in the transition zone 

 between the steppe and wood regions — in the wooded steppe region — as for instance 

 about Kushabar. About list Sisti-kem and list Tara-kem I have taken it on dry, sloping 

 hills, in open woods of pine and aspen, associated with Coiijledon spinosa, and others. 



The species begins flowering about the middle of July. 



Distribution: Southern Siberia from the government of Tomsk, eastwards to the 

 Amoor Province, northern Mongolia, northern China, Manchooria. 



Aconitum laeve Royle, lUustr. Himal. (1834) p. 45; Rapes. System. Aconiti Gener. 

 (1907) p. 167; Stapf, Aconites India Monogr. in Ann. Roy. Bot. Gard. Calcut. X (1905), 

 p. 136, t. 92. A. excelsum Reichenb. Illustr. Spec. Aconiti (1823—27) tab. LIII partim. 

 Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 20. A. hjcoctonum L., Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 66 partim; Turczan. 

 Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1842) p. 78, no. 68. A. Lycoctonum L. ^ septe.ntrionale Herder, PI. 

 Radd. (1861) p. 72. A. vulpariaC. A. Meyer in Ledeb. Fl. Alt. II, p. 287. A. Lycoctonum 

 fl. lilac. Regel in Bull. Soc. Imp. Nat. Moscou XXXIV (1861) p. 73 partim. A. septen- 

 tiionale Kolle, Kptur. cRi. Ajit. I (1901) p. 42. 



A. laeve Royle is very nearly allied to A. septentrionale, occurring as a 

 substitute for this species in Asia. The specimens found by me resemble much 

 Reichenbach's figure of A. exelsum I. c, entered by Rapaics Raymund too, 

 as a synonym of this species. The stalk of the nectaries, however, in the speci- 

 mens collected by me, are furnished with scattered, but rather long, downy hairs. The 

 medial sepals are rather oblique, which appears distinctly from the annexed figure of the 

 flower and its component parts, fig. 91. The specimens are also readily distinguished from 

 Staff's drawing of this species 1. c. by their equally broad spurs, spirally rolled up at 

 the top, the lips of which are also considerably shorter. Moreover, the flowers are larger 

 than recorded by Staff, the maximal breadth of the galea, near the top, from 7 to 8 mm. 

 The stamens are about 6 mm. long. 



Of common occurrence in the subalpine woods about Kushabar, in the Amyl valley, 

 near Ust Algiac, and in the taiga on the Sisti-kem. In full flower and incipient fruit for- 

 mation in the middle of July. 



Distribution: Siberia, eastwards as far as the Amoor Province, northern Mongolia, 

 Corea, China, Titrkestan, the Himalayas, Cashmere. 



Actaea spicata L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1762) p. 722. 



subspec. erythrocarpa Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 79; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 71; Regel, 

 PI. Radd. (1861) p. 119; Kpmi. fpji. Ajit. I (1901) p. 44. /S spicata in Turczan. Fl. 

 Baical.-Dahur. (1842) p. 84, no. 76. /S rubra Big., Ledeb. Fl. Alt. II, p. 275. fi erythrocarpa 



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