PI. Radd. (1872) p. 529, no. 175; KptiJi. 1. c. (1907) p. 891. M. alpesiris Schmidt, Fl. Bohem. 

 Ill (1794) p. 26; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I, p. 189; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 810; Karel. et Kiril. 

 Enum. PL Fl. Alt. no. 615. 



This variety differs from the preceding one in being of a lower and more caespitose 

 growth, and with a more congested, shorter and thicker raceme. The flowers are mostly 

 larger, and the pedicels rather short, not longer than the calyx. The flowers are of a dark 

 blue, slightly fragrant. Collected in the Amyl taiga and in the Altaian, in alpine and sub- 

 alpine meadows, frequently in somewhat moist places, where I have collected it in full 

 flower at the end of July. 



Distribution: Nearly all over Europe, Caucasia, south-western and northern Asia, 

 southwards to Persia, Pamir and the Himalayas, eastern Asia, Sakhalin. 



Myosotis intermedia Link, Enum. HorL Berol. I (1819) p. 164; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I, p. 187 

 (excl. var. a); Ledeb. Fl. Ross. Ill, p. 146; KpBM. $ji. Ajit. IV (1907) p. 892. M. arvensis 

 Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I, p. 187. 



In rather dry, sandy places on the islets in the Yenisei, on dry steppe meadows and 

 hills on the Abakan Steppe, and at Kushabar. Flowering in June and July. 



Distribution: Europe, Caucasia, south-western Asia, Siberia, eastwards to the Amoor 

 Province, Corea, Japan, Africa, North America. 



Eritrichium pectinatum (Pall.) DC. Prodrom. X, p. 127; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. Ill, p. 152; 

 Herder, PI. Radd. (1872) p. 538, no. 179; KpLM. $ji. Ajit. IV (1907) p. 896. E. incaimm 

 DC. 1. c, Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1850) p. 514, no. 827. Myosotis incana Turczan. Cat. 

 Baical. no. 816. M. ciliata Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I, p. 191. (Incl. E rupestre Bunge). 



Rather frequent on the Abakan Steppe, especially on stony declivities and sandy, hot 

 steppe meadows. Collected in full flower in June. I cannot find that E. rupestre Bunge, 

 of which I have examined a rich material in Petrograd, differs from the present species by 

 characters of real, systematic value, and therefore I refer it as a synonym under E. pecti- 

 natum (Pall ) DC. 



Distribution: Siberia and northern Mongoha, Manchooria, Corea, China, Tibet. 



Echinospermum Lappula (L.) Lehm. Asperifol. (1818) p. 121; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I, p. 

 198; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. Ill, p. 155; Kpw.i. Oji. Ajit. IV (1907) p. 900. 



var. anisacanthum (Turczan.) Trautv., Kptiji. 1. c. (1907). E. anisacanthum Turczan. 

 Cat. Baical. no. 824; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. Ill, p. 156; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1850) p. 

 520, no. 833; Herder, PL Radd. (1872) p. 551, no. 189. 



Along borders of fields, on slopes, and near habitations, on the Abakan Steppe, 

 where rather frequent, and scattered in the cultivated tracts between Minusinsk and 

 Kushabar. In full flower in June. Withering remains of this species I have, besides, found 

 on the steppes about the Ulu-kem, at the end of August. 



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