differ distinctly from my specimens. It seemed upon the whole, in this species, as in 

 the genus Vicia, that forms with broad . leaflets mostly have less pinnae than leaves cha- 

 racterized by narrow pinnae. 



Distribution: Europe, southwards to middle Italy, the Caucasus, Siberia, northern 

 Mongolia, eastern Asia, Sakhalin, Japan, North America. 



Lathyrus Gmelini Fritsch in Sitzber. Akad. Wiss. Wien. Math.— Naturw. CI. CIV 

 (1895) p. 479. Orobus lutetis L., Ledeb. Fl. Alt. Ill, p. 361; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. 

 Alt. no. 283. Orobus luieus fi orientalis Fisch. et Mey., Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 690; Kptur. 

 $1. Am. II (1903) p. 343. 



In subalpine wooded tracts about the Upper Amyl, and in the Altaian, on the Upper 

 Sisti-kem, in mixed wood of coniferous and foliferous trees. In part done flowering and 

 with nearly ripe fruits at the end of July. 



Distribution: Siberia, from the Ural to Trans Baikal, and northwards to about 58° 

 north lat., northern Mongolia, Turkestan, the western Himalayas. 



Orobus alpestris Waldl. et Kit. PI. Rar. Hungar. (1803—12) II, p. 133; Ledeb. Fl. 

 Alt. Ill, p. 358; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 689; Kptiji. $ji. Ajit. II (1903) p. 342. 



On slopes on the Upper Sisti-kem. Past flowering in the second half of July. 

 Distribution: Southern Siberia (the Altai and Sayansk districts), northern Mongolia. 



Hedysarum obscurum L. Syst. Nat. ed. X (1759) p. 1171;$eAieHK0, OSsopi. Poj!,aHedy- 

 sarA9 in Act. Hort. Petropol. XIX, p. 231; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. IE, p. 341; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. L p. 

 706; Basiner, Monogr. Hedysar. no. 5; Kptiji. <I>ji. Ajit. II (1903) p. 347. H. consanguineum 

 Bunge, Enum. Alt. p. 73. H. inundatum Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 366; Turczan. Fl. Bai- 

 cal.-Dahur. (1842) p. 781, no. 356. 



var. lasiocarpum (Ledeb.) Fedtsch. 1. c. 



In the Altaian, on the banks of the Upper Sisti-kem, in alpine meadows. 



Distribution: Arctic and alpine regions of Europe, Caucasia, Trans Caucasia, Rus- 

 sian Turkestan, Siberia, northern Mongolia, Sakhalin, North America. 



Hedysarum polymorphum Ledeb. Fl. Alt. Ill, p. 338; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 701; 

 Basiner, Monogr. Hedijsar. no. 26; Kpwj. $j. Ajit. II (1903) p. 346. 



On dry, open steppe, and on rocky slopes at Ust Tara-kem; almost past flowering in 

 the second half of august. 



Distribution: South-eastern Russia, Russian Turkestan, southern Siberia, north- 

 wards to about 56° north lat, and eastwards to Trans Baikal, northern Mongolia. 



Onobrychis viciaefolia Scopoli, Fl. Carniolica ed. II, 2 (1772) p. 76. 0. saliva Lam. 

 Fl. France II (1778) p. 652; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 708; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1842) 

 p. 783, no. 358; Kptiji. $.1. Ajit. II (1903) p. 349. 0. areimria Ledeb. Fl. Alt. IH, p. 342 

 0. carpalica Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 369. 



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