for a long time as withering remains near the summit of the latter. The standard is 

 longer than the wings, 26—30 mm. long; the claw equally broad, about 2 mm. in breadth, 

 and 12 — 14 mm. in length, the plate ovate and emarginate at the apex. The wings 

 are about 20 mm. long; their claws are very narrow, only about 0,3 mm. broad, 11 — 13 

 mm. long, the plates broadest near the apex, where slightly incised into 2 unequal- 

 ly large lobes; hindmost, where passing into the claw, they are provided with a round- 

 ed lobe. The keel is about 20 mm. long, at the apex furnished with a protruding beak, 

 2 — 3 mm. long. The pods, bursting the calyx rather early during their develop- 

 ment, are ovoid, 15 — 18 mm. long, densely pubescent, with long, white, or light rusty 

 brown hairs, near the summit, at the base of the persistent style, with a tuft of black 

 hairs. The seeds are to be found in a number of 10 — 15 in each pod; they are reniform, 

 glabrous, dull, of a brownish black colour, 2 — 2,5 mm. long, and, accordingly, nearly 

 twice as large as in the typical species. 



Collected by me on the Abakan Steppe, near Askys, on dry Devonian sandstone 

 cliffs facing south. The specimens taken in the middle of June are past flowering, with 

 ripe and partly ripe pods. 



Distribution: The main species is very rare and is previously known only from 2 

 places, viz. on the river Tsharysh, and near the mouth of the river Kan in southern 

 Siberia (Bunge). 



Astragalus alpinus L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1763) p. 1070; Pallas, Spec. Astrag. (1800— 

 02) p. 41, t. 32; Bunge, Gener. Aslrag. II (Mem. Acad. Imp. Sc. St. Petersb. Ser. VII, T. 

 XV, 1870) p. 26; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 345; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 237; 

 Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 601 ex parte; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1842) p. 761, no. 332; 

 KpBiJi. <I»ji. Ajit. II (1903) p. 298. Phaca astragalina DC. Astragalogia p. 52; Ledeb. Fl. 

 Alt. Ill, p. 270. 



On the banks of the Bei-kem, between Sebi and Utinsld porog, in shady places, 

 among blocks of stone. Partly done flowering in the second half of August. 



Distribution: Arctic and alpine regions of Europe, Novaya Zemlya, Siberia, Turke- 

 stan, northern Mongolia, western Tibet, arctic America. 



Astragalus frigidus Bunge, Gener. Astrag. p. 28; Kptiji. (Dje. A.it. II (1903) p. 299. 

 Phaca frigida L. Syst. Nat. ed. 10 (1759) p. 1173; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. Ill, p. 268; Turczan. Cat. 

 Baical. no. 311; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 575; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1842) p. 735, 

 no. 301. 



In the Altaian, on the Upper Sisti-kem, in alpine meadows and on mountain slopes, 

 and in the Bei-kem valley, near Utinski porog. 



Distribution: Arctic and alpine tracts of Europe, arctic Siberia, the Altai and 

 Sayansk mountains, the Himalayas, North America. 



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