Siberia, in the Yenisei valley ilioi-thwards to 72° 25' north lai, and eastwards to the Sea 

 of Okhotsk, the Altai and Sayansk districts. Trans Baikal to China, Sakhalin, Japan, 

 south-western Asia to the Himalayas. 



Trientalis europaea L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1762) p. 488; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 930; 

 Ledeb. Fl. Ross. Ill, p. 24; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1849) p. 305, no. 773; Herder, PI. 



Radd. (1872) p. 413, no. 93; Ki)bi.i. <I)ji. Ajit. 

 Ill (1904) p. 823; Pax et Knuth, Primulac. 

 in Engl. Pflanzenr. H. 22 (IV, 237, 1905) 

 p. 313. 



Pretty common in shady woods of 

 conifers about the Upper Amyl, on the 

 Sisti-kem, at Ust Kamsara, and in the 

 Altaian, where collected by me to far 

 above the tree limit, to about 2000 m. 

 above sea-level. All of the specimens 

 belong to the typical form. In full flower 

 in July. 



Distribution: Widely distributed over 

 the northern and temperate regions of 

 Eurasia. Geographical range in Scandi- 

 navia northwards to 71° 10' north lat., in 

 the Ural to about 67K.° north lat., in 

 western Siberia to about 64° north lat, in 

 the Yenisei valley to about 66° 30' north 

 lat., and eastwards as far as the Tshuktsher 

 Peninsula and Kamtchatka, northern Mon- 

 goHa, Salchalin, Japan, North America. 



Lysimachia vulgaris L. Spec. PI. ed. 

 II (1762) p. 209; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I, p. 207; 

 Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 711; 

 Ledeb. Fl. Ross. Ill, p. 27; Herder, PI. 

 Radd. (1872) p. 417, no. 96; Ki.m.i. Oj. A.it. 

 Ill (1904) p. 825; Pax et Knuth, Prinmluc. in Engl. Pflanzenr. H. 22 (IV, 237, 1905) p. 303. 

 var. typica R. Knuth, 1. c. (1905) p. 304. 



In humid places on the river Abakan, and scattered in the tracts between Karatus 

 and Kushabar, at Petropawlowsk on the Arayl, Semiretska and Kalna, where it begins 

 flowering at the beginning of July. 



The leaves in this variety are generally verticillate in 3's, only in the upper part of the 

 stem and in the panicle sometimes opposite. The leaves are large and broad, ovate to 



Fig. 100. 



Leaf of Cortusa Matthioli L. from the 

 Sayansk mountains (Vi). 



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