Pretly common in the Iracts about the Lower Sisli-kem, roughly from TsheberLash, 

 and downwaids, where occurring near the river-banks, in woods and in grass-grown 

 places. At Ust Sisti-kem, it is exceedingly frequent in the meadows, where — together with 

 Sanguisorba officinalis — constituting one of the most characteristic plants. Collected 

 flowering nearly throughout August. I have also observed it scattered along the banks of 

 the Bei-kem, from Ust Tara-kem to Ust Kamsara. 



Distribution: Eastern Russia, Siberia, in the Yenisei valley northwards to 69° 

 north lat., and eastwards to the Amoor Province and northern China, the Thian-Shan, 

 Pamir, northern Mongolia, North America? 



Gentiana algida Pallas, Fl. Ross. II, p. 107; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I, p. 281; Turczan. Cat. 

 Baical. no. 767; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. AU. no. 578; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. 

 (1849) p. 330, no. 792; KptM. (U.i. A.it. Ill (1904) p. 845. G. algida Pallas « sibirica Kus- 

 nezow, Sul)gcn. Eiigenliana in Act. Hort. Petropol. XV (1896—1904) no. 53. G. frigida 

 HaencUe ,- algida (Pallas) Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IH, p. 65; Herder, PI. Radd. (1872) p. 453, 

 no. 125. 



Rather common in the Altaian, at an altitude of 1700 — 2000 m. above sea-level, in 

 places covered with moss and lichen, together with Gentiana aliaica, Phyllodoce coerulea, 

 Dryas oclopetala, Saxifraga comosa. Rhododendron chrgsantum, and others. Collected 

 in full flower at the end of July. 



Distribution: Alpine tracts of middle Europe, Siberia, through the Altai and Sayansk 

 regions and Trans Baikal to the Tshuktsher Peninsula and Kamtchatka, Dzungaria, the 

 Thian-Shan, Mongolia, Tibet, the Himalayas, Cashmere, Japan, North America. 



Gentiana macrophylla Pallas, Fl. Ross. II, p. 108; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I, p. 286; Turczan. 

 Cat. Baical. no. 766; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 587; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IH, p. 69; 

 Kusnez. Eugent. no. 92; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1849) p. 333, no. 795; Herder, PI. 

 Radd. (1872) p. 461, no. 132; Kptiji. fD.i. A.n. Ill (1904) p. 847. 



In dry steppe meadows, and in open, dry brush-wood of birch and other foliage trees 

 about Karatus and Kushabar. Collected with young flower-buds in the first half of July. 



Distribution: Dzungaria, Siberia, in the Yenisei valley northwards to about 60° north 

 lat., through the Altai and Sayansk regions. Trans Baikal, and eastwards to the Amoor 

 Province, Manchooria, northern Mongolia, northern China. 



Gentiana decumbens L. Suppl. p. 174; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I, p. 280; Turczan. Cat. Baical. 

 no. 773; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 577; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. Ill, p. 64; Turczan. Fl. 

 Baical.-Dahur. (1849) p. 329, no. 791; Herder,Pl. Radd. (1842) p. 451, no. 124; Kusnez. 

 Eugent. no. 78; Kpwji. *ji. A.ri'. HI (1904) p. 848. 



On rocky slopes at Ust Tara-kem; flowering and past flowering in the middle of 

 August. 



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