Utricularia minor L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1762) p. 26; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I, p. 18; Ledeb. 

 Fl. Ross. Ill, p. 2; KptLi. Oji. Ajit. Ill (1904) p. 804. 



Scattered in peaty swamps near Ust Algiac, together with Ramincuhis radicans 

 subspec. multifidus, in flower at the end of July, and in pools at Ust Tara-kem. 



Distribution: Europe, southwards to middle Italy and Austro-Hungary, Siberia, 

 northwards roughly to 66J4° north lat., and eastwards to the Amoor Province and Man- 

 chooria, northern Mongolia, the Himalayas, North America, Greenland. 



Plantaginaceae LiNDL. 



Plantago major L. Spec. PL ed. II (1762) p. 163; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I, p. 143; Turczan. 

 Cat. Baical. no. 936; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 730; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. Ill, p. 47b; 

 Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1852) p. 401, no. 831; Herder, PL Radd. (1887) p. 56, no. 608; 

 KpbM. $ji. Ajit. IV (1907) p. 1083. P. asiatica Ledeb. Fl. Alt. L p. 143 (non L.). 



This species is very common in the territory traversed, especially in slightly moist 

 soil, where occurring in a series of different forms, between which there are to be found 

 intermediate types. Besides the typical plant, the following main forms seemed to be 

 separable in the material collected: /. asiatica Decne. ct f. minima Decne. Collected 

 flowering in June on the Abakan Steppe, near habitations, on islets in the rivers Aba- 

 kan and Yenisei, about Minusinsk, in several places along the road to Kushabar, on the 

 banks of the river Amyl, and in court-yards in the Amyl taiga. Also found in the Urjan- 

 kai country, at Ust Algiac, and at Ust Sisti-kem. 



Distribution: Nearly all over Europe and Asia, in Siberia northwards to about 66° 

 north lat., introduced into North America and the southern hemisphere. 



Plantago Cornuti Gouan, lUustr. et Observat. Botan. (1773) p. 6; Turczan. Fl. Bai- 

 cal.-Dahur. (1852) p. 403, no. 933; Kptiji. $ji. A.iit. IV (1907) p. 1085. P. asialica L., Ledeb. 

 Fl. Ross, in, p. 479. P. exaltaia Horn., Ledeb. FL Alt I, p. 144; Turczan. Cat Baical. no. 

 938; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PL Fl. Alt no. 731. P. major L. jS asiatica Decne., Herder, PL 

 Radd. (1887) p. 59, no. 609. 



In moist grass-field on the borders of the salt-lake Tagarski osero, together with 

 Aster Tripolium, Plantago maritima subspec. ciliata, Saussurea crassifolia, Lepidium cras- 

 sifolium, Triglochin maritima, and other halophilous plants, and scattered on the steppes 

 about the Ulu-kem. Collected flowering at the beginning of July. 



As compared with Reichenbach's illustration of this species in Icon. Fl. Germ. 

 XVII, f. 1708, in, the specimens collected are distinguished by having the blades of the 

 leaves comparatively narrower and longer. The leaves are oblong, narrowed into the 

 petioles, not abruptly rounded or subcordate at the base, subacute at the apex, 9—12 cm. 

 long, and 3,5 — 5 cm. broad. 



Distribution: Southern Europe, from southern France through northern Italy, Dal- 

 matia, Bulgaria, southern Russia, western Asia to Russian Turkestan, southern Siberia, 

 eastwards to Trans Baikal, northern Mongolia. 



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