P 1 u III b a g i II a c e a e LiNDL. 



Statice speciosa L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1762) p. 395; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I, p. 436; Turczan. 

 Cat. Baical. no. 934; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 727; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. Ill, p. 465; 

 KpM.i. <t.i, A.iT. IV (1907) p. 1077. Goniolimon speciosum Boiss. in DC. Prodrom. XII, p. 

 634; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1852) p. 394, no. 926; Herder, PL Radd. (1887) p. 49, 

 no. 603. 



var. genuina Krylow, 1. c. (1907) p. 1078. 



Scattered in dry, stony field, on dry rocks, etc., on the Abakan Steppe, where flower- 

 ing in June. I have also collected it in the Urjankai country, on dry sunny declivities on 

 the Bei-kem, near list Sisti-kem, and in several places on the steppes betAveen the Tapsa 

 and Kemchik-bom. 



Distribution: South-eastern Russia, Turkestan, Siberia, eastwards roughly to Irkutsk, 

 northern Mongolia. 



StaUce Gmelini Willd. Spec. PI. ed. II, p. 1524; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. 1, p. 432; Turczan. Cat. 

 Baical. no. 236; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 723; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IIL p. 460; Tur- 

 czan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1852) p. 397, no. 929; Herder, PI. Radd. (1887) p. 52, no. 606; 

 KpBM. «D.i. A.IT. lY (1907) p. 1076. 



On the steppes along the Ulu-kem, especially in somewhat saliferous soil. 



Distribution: Middle and southern Europe from Hungary and eastwards, Caucasia, 

 south-western Asia to Turkestan, southern Siberia, eastwards to Lake Baikal, northern 

 Mongolia. 



Gentianaceae DUMORT. 



Gentiana Amarella L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1762) p. 334; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. Ill, p. 52; Tur- 

 czan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1849) p. 316, no. 778; Herder, PI. Radd. (1872) p. 427, no. 109; 

 KptM. $ji. A.IT. HI (1904) p. 835. G. pnUensis Froel., Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I, p. 288; Turczan. Cat. 

 Baical. no. 785; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 588. 



In dry meadows, and in light, open larch forest on the Sisti-kem, near Tshebertash, 

 at Ust Kamsara, and Ust Tara-kem. In flower in the first half of August. 



Distribution: Europe, southwards roughly to the nortli of France, Switzerland, 

 Austria, northern Italy and Bulgaria, the Caucasus, Siberia, in the Yenisei valley north- 

 wards to towards 66° north lat, and eastwards to Kamtchatka, northern Mongolia, North 

 America. 



Gentiana delonsa Rottb. Act. Hafn. X (1770) .p. 254; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. III. p. 59; Tur- 

 czan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1849) p. 322, no. 787; Herder, PI. Radd. (1872) p. 439, no. 116. G. 

 barbata Froel. Gentiana Libell. (1796) p. 114; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I, p. 282- Turczan. Cat. Bai- 

 cal. no. 780; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PL Fl. Alt no. 581; Turczan. 1. c. p. 321, no. 783; Ledeb. 

 Fl. Ross, in, p. 59; Kpi,i.i. -ki. A.n. HI (1904) p. 841. 



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