scape is fi^om 15 to 25 cm. high, and beset with rough, ascending, rather stiff, scattered 

 hairs, of a hght yellowisli brown colour. These hairs grow darker and denser towards 

 Ihe upper part of the scape, immediately below the flower. The flower-buds are nearly 

 globular, and covered with rather dark, not glossy hairs. The filaments, at any rate in 

 dried specimens, are of a greenish or bluish green colour. The petals are broadly 

 obovate, or broadly triangular, the upper part cut off square, the margin more or less 

 distinctly indented. The leaves are somewhat varying, generally about 10 cm. long, pin- 

 nately divided, with two pairs of lanceolate side pinnae, slightly tapering towards the 

 summit. The terminal pinna generally of the same size as the side pinnae, but mostly 

 somewhat broader. Sometimes the leaves may be nearly 2-pinnate, the primary lobes 

 being pinnatifid or deeply indented. The leaves are covered, on the upper as well as on 

 the under side, with long, rough, scattered hairs, of a light, nearly white colour. The 

 petioles are mostly glabrous (f. typicum Fedde, 1. c. p. 380). The plant is densely 

 cespitose, surrounded at the base by withering rests of leaves, of a brownish 

 colour. 



Gathered in full flower in the Altaian, at an altitude of about 2100 m. above sea- 

 level, at the end of July. Occurring there among mosses and lichens, on moist, shady 

 slopes with a northern aspect, accompanying Cardamine bellidifolia, Ranunculus frigidus, 



Valeriana capiiata, Sedum Rhodiola, Salices, etc. 



Distribution: Northern portion of the central Asiatic territory, northern Mongolia, 

 eastern and north-eastern Siberia to Kamtchatka. 



Papaver somniferun? L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1762) p. 726; Kpw.i. $.1. Ajit. I (1901) p. 52. 



subspec. setigerum (DC.) Elk, Monogr. (1839) p. 30; Bym^, Papaverac. bt. <I>ji. CnSup. 

 II ^a.TbH. BocT. I (1913) p. 18. Papaver setigerum DC. Fl. Franc. V (Suppl. 1815) p. 585; 

 Fedde, Papaverac. in Engl. Pflanzenr. H. 40 (IV, ]04, 1909) p. 342. 



A few specimens of this one collected by me along the road between Karatus and 

 Kushabar. In full flower in the rrtiddle of July. 



Distribution: A native of the Mediterranean countries, Cyprus, Madeira, the Canary 

 islands. Scattered in Siberia. 



Corydalis pauciflora (Steph.) Pers. Synops. Plant. II (1807) p. 269; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. 

 Ill, p. 240; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 97; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 97 et 746; Turczan. Fl. 

 Baical.-Dahur. (1842) p. 102, no. 92; Kegel, PI. Radd. (1861) p. 134, no. 163; KpH.ii. 

 $ji. A.IT. I (1901) p. 55; Bymi., Papaverac. bt, ^x. Ciifinp. h /l,a.ii,H. Boct. I (1913) p. 52. 



Some specimens gathered by me in the Altaian, about the limit of tree vegetation, 

 •in moist, grass-grown places, near a mountain brooklet. Nearly past flowering at the 

 end of July. 



Distribution: Southern Siberia, northern Mongolia, the Caucasus, arctic America. 



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