Yenisei and Abakan, where it begins flowering at the end of June. The species is also 

 common about Karatus and Kushabar. 



Distribution: Europe, south-western Asia, southern Siberia. 



Fragaria vesca L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1762) p. 709; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. II, p. 232; Turczan. 

 Cat. Baical. no. 406; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II, p. 63; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1843) p. 604, 

 no. 397; Kpmt. <Djr. Ajlt. II (1903) p. 397. 



Common between Minusinsk and Kushabar and in the Amyl valley, on dry, sunny 

 hill-slopes, where I have found it with ripe fruits in the middle of July. Taken by me in 

 the Urjankai country, near Ust Algiac, and near the mouth of the Kamsara. 



Distribution: Europe, Siberia, to 63° north lat, northern Mongolia, the Caucasus, 

 Asia Minor, the Thian-Shan, Afghanistan, North Africa, the Canaries, North and South 

 America. 



Fragaria viridis Duchesne, Nat. Hist. Fraisiers (1766) p. 135. Fragaria collina Ehrh. 

 Beitr. zur Naturk. VII (1792) p. 26; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. II, p. 233; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 

 407; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 296; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II, p. 64; Turczan. Fl. Bai- 

 cal.-Dahur. (1843) p. 605, no. 398; KpLia. $.1. Ajit. II (1903) p. 398. 



This species I have met with in the tracts about the Lower Abakan. Between Ust 

 Abakansk and Minusinsk I have collected it with buds and fully opened flowers at the 

 beginning of June. It grows here in thicket of Caragana arborescens, together with Iris 

 ruihenica, Solidago virgaurea, Aster alpinus, Stellaria graminea, and others. Most of the 

 specimens belong to f. tgpica Aschers. et Graebn. (Synops. VI (1903) p. 655), and have 

 the stems to 15 cm. high, and the young leaves densely silver-hairy. The lateral leaflets 

 are wholly sessile, while the terminal leaflet frequently has a stalk 2 — 3 mm. long. The 

 shape of the leaflets is somewhat varying, ovate, or mostly oval, with a broad summit, 

 nearly square cut. The whole plant is beset with long and rather dense hairs, frequently 

 of a slightly yellowish colour. 



Besides the typical form I have also collected specimens with 1 or 2 quite small 

 pinnae on the petioles below the ordinary leaflets (f. siibpinnata Celak. Prodr. Fl. 

 Boehm. (1874) p. 634) and forms with much prolonged runners, (f. flagellifera Schur, 

 Enum. PI. Transs. (1866) p. 186). Near Uzuik, I have collected it at the end of June, 

 ^^'ith half Hpe fruits and much prolonged calyx-lobes, to over 1 cm. long. These speci- 

 mens are also distinguished by their extraordinary floweriness. The species also occurs 

 scattered in the Urjankai country, where I have observed it at Ust Kamsara and near the 

 Dora Steppe. 



Distribution: Europe, the Canaries, south-western Asia to the Thian-Shan, Siberia, 

 northwards to Krasnoyarsk, northern Mongolia. 



Comarum palustre L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1762) p. 718; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II, p. 62; KpHjr. 

 ipji. A.IT. 11 (1903) p. 395. Potentilla paliislris Scopoli, Fl. Carniolica ed. II (1772) p. 359; 



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