Distribution: Russian Turkestan, the Thian-Shan, the AUai and Sayansk districls, 

 northern Mongolia, Kamtchatka, northern China. 



Chrysosplenium alternifolium L. Spec. PL ed. II (1762) p. 569; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. II, p. 

 115; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 502; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II, p. 226; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. 

 (1844) p. 272, no. 491; Maxim. Diagn. Plant. Nov. Asiat. IX (1877) p. 760; Franchet, 

 Monogr. Chrysosplenium (1890) p. 106; KpHJi. $ji. Ajit. II (1903) p. 480; HeKpacoBa, 



KaMHBjroMKOBbiH Bi> cDeATOHKO, $.1. AsiaT. PoccIh 7 (1915) p. 22. 



Scattered in moist, shady places in the taiga about the Upper Amyl, and near Ust 

 Algiac. Past flowering in the second half of July. 



Distribution: Europe, except the most southern portions, arctic islands, the Cau- 

 casus, arctic and wooded regions of Siberia, northern Mongolia, the Himalayas, Man- 

 chooria, northern China, Sakhalin, Japan, North America. 



Parnassia palustris L. Spec, PI. ed. II (1762) p. 391; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I, p. 427; Turczan. 

 Cat. Baical. no. 208; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 183; Ledeb. Fl; Ross. I, p. 262; 

 Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1842) p. 310, no. 197; Regel, PI. Radd. (1861) p. 504; Kptiji. 

 «l)ji. Ajit. II (1903) p. 483. 



In moist meadows and in thickets, scattered along the river Abakan and in the 

 subalpine taiga territory about the river Amyl, at Kushabar and Kalna, rather com- 

 mon at Ust Algiac. In the Altaian found by me in moist, grass-grown places, to above the 

 limit of tree vegetation. The species begins flowering in the middle of June. 



Distribution: Europe, the Caucasus, south-western Asia to Turkestan, the Hima- 

 layas and Tibet, arctic and wooded regions of Siberia, northern Mongolia, northern China, 

 northern Corea, Sakhalin, Japan, North America. 



Ribes petraeum Wulf. in Jacq. Miscell. II, p. 36; Maxim, in Mel. Biol. IX, p. 230; 

 Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II, p. 198; Hedlund in Rot. Not. 1901, p. 106; Kpbijr. ^ji. A.iit. JI (1903) p. 

 465. Ribes Bieberssleinii Berl., Hedlund in Bot. Not. 1901, p. 105. Ribes atropurpureiim C. 

 A. Meyer in Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I, p. 268. Ribes trisie Bunge, Enum. Alt. p. 14; Turczan. Cat. 

 Baical. no. 481; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1844) p. 253, no. 470. 



Scattered on the banks of the rivers Amyl and Bei-kem, near the Dora Steppe, and 

 between Ust Sisti-kem and Buluk, especially in moist, moss-grown and shady places, and 

 in humid chinks of rocks, near the river. With ripe fruits in the second half o,f August. 

 Young twigs of this plant observed by me as used for pipe-stems by the natives, after the 

 pith being removed. 



Distribution: Middle Europe, Caucasia, south-western Asia, Siberia to the Amoor 

 Province, Manchooria, northern Mongolia, the Himalayas, Sakhalin, Japan. 



Ribes pubescens Hedlund, Bot. Not. (1901) p. 100; KptM. Oji. Ajit. II (1903) p. 464. 

 Ribes riibnim L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1762) p. 290 ex parte; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I, p. 267; Turczan. 

 Cat. Baical. no. 48; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 363; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. 11, p. 199; 

 Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1844) p. 252, no. 469; Maxim. Mel. Biol. IX, p. 233. 



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