Veiy comipon in meadows and in open brush-wood on islets in the Lower Aba- 

 kan, on the Bei-kem, near the Dora Steppe, and on flood-plains near Ust Tara-kem. In 

 lull flower at the end of June, past flowering and with ripe pods in the second half of 

 August. 



Distribution: Middle and southern Europe, south-western Asia, southern Siberia, 

 northwards to about 56° north lat., and eastwards roughly to Trans Baikal, northern 

 Mongolia, North Africa. 



Geraniaceae St. Hilaire. 



Geranium sibiricum L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1763) p. 957; Knuth, Geraniaceae in Engl. 

 Pflanzenr. H. 53 (IV, 129, 1912) p. 195; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. Ill, p. 227; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 

 276; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 459; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1842) p. 624, no. 265; KpBur. 

 <l)Ji. Ajit. I (1901) p. 193. 



Found in flower in the second half of June, in moist, grass-grown places on islets in 

 the river Abakan, near Ust Kamuishto. Near Kushabar, at the beginning of July, I have 

 collected some specimens of this one, with very low, decumbent, or trailing stems, only 

 3 — 8 cm. long, with spreading branches and petioles, and smaller, sometimes only 3-part- 

 ed leaves. For the rest, they agree perfectly with the typical plant, and I consider them 

 only to be reduced starved forms. The species also occurs in meadows, near Ust Kam- 

 sara, where collected by me in fruit in the middle of August. 



Distribution: Middle and southern Russia (occurring also strayed in middle Euro- 

 pe), the Caucasus, Turkestan, Tibet, the Himalayas, Siberia, Mongolia, eastern Asia, Japan, 

 North America (introduced). 



Geranium albiflorum Ledeb. Fl. Alt. Ill, p. 230; Knuth, Geraniaceae in Engl. Pflan- 

 zenr. H. 53 (IV, 129, 1912) p. 124; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 282; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. 

 Fl. Alt. no. 194; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 463; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1842) p. 630, no. 

 271; KpBM. 1>Ji. Ajit. I (1901) p. 194. 



In open coniferous forest in the Amyl taiga, and on slopes, etc., near Ust Algic. With 

 flowers in the second half of July. 



Distribution: Eastwards from the Thian-Shan, through Siberia and northern Mon- 

 golia, roughly to Trans Baikal. 



Geranium pratense L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1763) p. 954; Knuth, Geraniaceae in Engl. 

 Pflanzenr. H. 53 (IV, 129, 1912) p. 127; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. Ill, p. 229; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 

 279; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PL Fl. Alt. no. 191; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. I, p. 466; Turczan. Fl. Bai- 

 cal.-Dahur. (1842) p. 627, no. 268; Kpwjr. $jr. Ajit. I (1901) p. 195. 



Scattered in meadows and in thickets on islets in the Lower Abakan, and on slopes 

 about Ust Sisti-kem, where collected in flower and with half ripe fruits in June— August. 

 The stems are rather densely pubescent, with spreading or retrorse, rather coarse hairs, 

 their upper parts and also the peduncles and sepals, glandulous, with dense purple- or 

 violet-tipped glandular hairs. 



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