agree prefectly \Aith material which I have seen from the herbarium of the Riksmuseum 

 at Stockholm. 



Specimens agreeing with the above description I have found to be rather common 

 in moist thickets on islets in the river Abakan, and in moist brush-wood on the banks 

 of the river Amyl, near Kushabar; in the Urjankai country I have collected the species 

 in thickets at Ust Sisti-kem. The species seemed to begin flowering about the middle of 

 June. 



Distribution: Southern and eastern Siberia to Kamtchatka, the Amoor Province 

 and Manchooria, northern Mongolia, Corea, northern China, Sakhalin, Japan. 



Stachys silvaticus L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1763) p. 811; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. II, p. 407; Karel. 

 et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 695; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. Ill, p. 413; Kpi.i.a. <5jr. Ajt. IV (1907) 

 p. 1054. 



In dry thicket near Kushabar, and in the Amyl taiga, where collected in full flower 

 in the middle of July. In comparison with Scandinavian material, the specimens col- 

 lected here by me are characteristic in having mostly the calyx-teeth considerably broader 

 and shorter, and more erect, not diverging. The bracts also mostly seemed to be more 

 broadly ovate-lanceolate, tapering at the top, and acuminate, but never mucronate. The 

 leaves, especially the lower ones, are distinctly crenate at the margin, and not serrate. 

 My material, however, is so scarce that I dare not express any opinion on the syste- 

 matic value of this character. 



Distribution: Europe, except the extreme north and south, Caucasia, Russian Tur- 

 kestan, the western Himalayas, southern Siberia, eastwards roughly to the Yenisei. 



Stachys palustris L. Spec. PI. ed. 11 (1763) p. 811; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. II, p. 408; Karel. et 

 Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 696; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IE, p. 414: Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. 

 (1851) p. 395, no. 917; Herder, PI. Radd. (1887) p. 30, no. 589; Kpi.i.i. <&.t. A.it. IV (1907) 

 p. 1055. 



In moist meadows near the river Amyl, south of Kushabar. and near Ust Algiac, 

 where collected with young flowers in the middle of July; at Ust Sisti-kem, and on flood- 

 plains at Ust Tara-kem, with fruits at the end of August The specimens differ from the 

 common Scandinavian ones I have had for comparison by having the bracts in the 

 whole flower-cluster larger, more foliaceously developed, and even the upper ones pro- 

 jecting much further than the flowers, the lower ones 6—10 times as far as the flowers, 

 being thus of about the same size as the ordinary leaves of the plant The lower bracts 

 are — like the leaves for the rest — serrate at the margin, the upper ones becoming gra- 

 dually entire; they are also considerably broader than in the typical species, of a near- 

 ly ovate shape, with a rather far produced, acute apex, hairy on the upper as well as on 

 the under side. This form is probably identical with /. hractea B. v. Mannagetta, Fl. 

 Nied. Oesterr. Vol. II (1893) p. 1013. 



Distribution: Nearly all over Europe, except the most northern and southern por- 



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