ly short, nearly ovoid, and vei-y densely flowered; the leaves are comparatively long, 

 equally narrow, to 12 cm. long, and 1,7 cm. broad. Oi rather common occurrence in 

 swampy places, in still creeks, etc., along the rivers Abakan and Yenisei, near the Kam- 

 sara, and on flood-plains at Ust Tara-kem. The species begins flowering in the first half of 

 June. 



Distribution: Temperate regions of Europe, Siberia, northwards to 62° 10' north 

 lat. in the government of Tobolsk, and to 66° 30' in the government of Yeniseisk, east- 

 wards to Kamtchatka, northern Mongolia, Manchooria, Sakhalin, Japan, North America. 



Glaux maritima L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1762) p. 301; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I, p. 274; Turczan. Cat. 

 Baical. no. 929; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 720; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. Ill, p. 23; Tur- 

 czan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1849) p. 304, no. 772; Herder, PI. Radd. (1872) p. 411, no. 92; 

 Kpi.i.1. <&ji. A.IT. Ill (1904) p. 822; Pax et Knuth, Primulac. in Engl. Pflanzenr. H. 22 (IV, 

 237, 1905) p. 319. 



subspec. pedunculala nov. subspec. [Tab. XIV, Fig. 2]. 



Ab forma ty'pica differl floribus distincte stipitatis — pedunculi 1 — 2,5 mm. longi; 

 capsulae fere pyriformes, apice protactae, actiminatae, nee globosae, maturae 3—k mm. 

 longae. 



The specimens collected by me in southern Siberia, are generally of a rather slen- 

 der growth, 18 — 20 cm. high, usually simple, more rarely branched, strict, sometimes 

 decumbent, according to the habitats. The leaves are comparatively narrow, nearly lan- 

 ceolate, 10 — 12 mm. long, and the breadth from )^ — % of the length, generally with a 

 short petiole, and furnished with a rather indistinct midvein. These specimens, however, 

 are especially characteristic and differing in having the flowers pedicelled, usually com- 

 paratively long-pedicelled. The pedicels are generally 1 — 2 mm. long; specimens with 

 pedicels measuring even to 2,5 mm. have been observed by me. The pedicel is, like 

 the whole plant, glabrous, more or less striate. The length of the flowers is generally 

 from 2,5 — 3,5 mm., not differing from the typical species. The stamens are of about the 

 same length as the calyx. The capsule, however, is characteristic in ha\'ing the top di- 

 stinctly protruding, so as to give it a pyriform appearance; the length of the fruit is 3 

 to 4 mm. 



In the floras in most common use, this species is recorded to have sessile or nearly 

 sessile flowers, as is also the case in the work by Pax et Knuth, quoted above, where is 

 recorded: „Flores sessiles"; the fruits are, moreover, reported to be globular, both of which 

 characters also seemed to agree with the material of this species taken from various parts 

 of the globe, and used by me for comparison. In EpBiJtoB'L, $j[. Ajixaa III (1904) p. 822, 

 however, the flowers are recorded to have short pedicels, and the fruits to be globular, 

 ^\'ith protruding tops, a statement accordingly agreeing with my observations. It is therefore 

 just possible that the subspecies pedunculata is widely distributed over Siberia, where 

 forming an eastern race of the species Glaii.v maritima. 



H54 



