In shady thickets near the banks of the Lower Sisti-kem, and at Ust Tara-kem. The 

 specimens are partly pa!?t flowering in August. 



var. multicaulis (Ledeb.) Trautv. 1. c. Kpsui. 1. c. V. multicaulis Ledeh. Fl. Alt. Ill, 

 p. 345; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 378; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 272; Ledeb. Fl. 

 Ross. I p. 678; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1842) p. ,789, no. 365. 



In open woods of birch and other foliage trees near the river Abakan. Young flowers 

 in the middle of June. Varies considerably as to the pubescence. 



Distribution: The species is distributed in eastern Russia, Russian Turkestan, south- 

 ern Siberia, northern Mongola. 



Vicia cracca L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1763) p. 1035; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. IIL p. 349; Turczan. Cat. 

 Baical. no. 376; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 275; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I p. 674; Tur- 

 czan. Fl. BaicaL-Dahur. (1842) p. 790, no. 366; Kptui. $.1. Aar. II (1903) p. 333. 



Common in thickets and meadows in the tracts about the rivers Yenisei and 

 Abakan, at Karatus and Kushabar, in subalpine wooded tracts along the Amyl, at Ust 

 Algiac, near Ust Sisti-kem, and at Ust Tara-kem. 



The specimens collected vary considerably as to the pubescence and the floweriness. 

 The specimens are generally rather flowery, the raceme is sometimes considerably longer 

 than the axillary leaf, and the number of the flowers varying between 12 and 35, as a rule 

 20—25. The corofla is 11—12 mm. long. The number of the leaflets is 16—20. As to the 

 pubescence there seemed to occur all transitions between /. genuina Trautv. 1. c. and/". 

 canescens Trautv. 1. c, which both of them are only to be considered as modifications 

 in consequence of the habitats. The latter form seemed to be the most frequent one in 

 the steppe region about the river Abakan, upon the whole in dry places, the former in 

 the wooded tracts and in more humid habitats. In thickets on the banks of the Yenisei, 

 near Minusinsk I have collected specimens of /. lilacina (Ledeb.) Trautv. 1. c. (V. lilacina 

 Ledeb. Fl. Alt. Ill, p. 348; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 675;Kpi.M. 1. c), and between Karatus and 

 Kushabar specimens of a white flowered form, /. albiflora Trautv. 1. c; Kptu. 1 c. In 

 subalpine wooded tracts about the Upper Amyl I have collected a slender and fine form 

 with comparatively few pinnae, and each specimen only with one raceme, containing 6 — 8 

 flowers, the corollas of which are comparatively smaller, only 9 — 10 mm. long. Seemed 

 to agree well with f. depauperata Domin in Fedde, Repert. I (1906) p. 13. The species 

 has been found in flower from June to August. 



Distribution: Europe, the Caucasus, Asia Minor, Turkestan, Siberia, northern Mon- 

 golia, northern China, Corea, Sakhalin, Japan, North Africa, North America, Greenland. 



Vicia costata Ledeb. Fl. Alt. Ill, p. 346; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 677; Kpu.i. $.1. A.tt. 

 II (1903) p. 335. 



On open, rocky slopes on the river Ulu-kem; witli partly empty pods at the end 

 of August. 



Distribution: Southern Siberia and northern Mongolia, about from Semipalatinsk 

 to towards Lake Baikal. 



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