Plantago maxima Alton, Hort. Kew. I, p. 151; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I, p. 145; Ledeb. Fl. 

 Ross. Ill, p. 480; Herder, PI. Radd. (1887) p. 62, no. 611; Kptu. cjji. A.it. IV (1907) p. 1085. 



In open places on islets in the river Yenisei, near Ust Abakansk. With leaves and 

 young flowers at the beginning of July. 



Distribution: Middle and eastern Europe, western Asia to Russian Turkestan, Sibe- 

 ria to towards Lake Baikal. 



Plantago media L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1762) p. 136; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I, p. 146; Turczan. Cat. 

 Baical. no. 939; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. Ill, p. 480; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1852) p. 404, no. 

 934; Herder, PI. Radd. (1887) p. 63, no. 612; liptu. $ji. A.rr. IV (1907) p. 1086. 



On the Abakan Steppe, near Ust Kamuishto, on diy hills, on the road between Minu- 

 sinsk and Kushabar, and scattered in the Amyl taiga; flowering in the first half of July, 

 moreover, found to be rather frequent in the Urjankai country, as for instance about Ust 

 Algiac, at Ust Sisti-kem, and at Ust Kamsara. 



uar. Urvilleana Rap., Decne. in DC. Prodrom. XIII, p. 697; Kjiw.r. ttji. Ajit. IV 

 (1907) p. 1086. 



Pretty common in sandy places on the islets in the rivers Yenisei and Abakan, where 

 it begins flowering in the first half of June. 



Distribution: Nearly all over Europe, except the most northern and western regions, 

 south-western Asia and Persia to Russian Turkestan, Siberia, northwards to about 66° 

 north lat., and eastwards to the Amoor Province and Manchooria, China, northern 

 Mongolia, Sakhalin, North Africa. Var. Urvilleana especially in the steppe region. 



Plantago maritima L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1762) p. 165; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I, p. 148; Tur- 

 czan. Cat. Baical. no. 940; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 732; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. Ill, 

 p. 485; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1852) p. 404, no. 935; Herder, PL Radd. (1887) p. 65, 

 no. 615; Kptiji. $ji. A.rr. IV (1907) p. 1088. 



subspec. ciliata nov. subspec. 



Ab forma typica diff'erl laciniis corollae dense el distincle cilialis, vulgo brevioribiis 

 lalioribiisqiie, late ovatis, non ut in forma typica ovato-lanceolatis. 



This characteristic subspecies is of rather common occurrence along the salt 

 marshes and in saline soil on the Abakan Steppe, at Ust Kamuishto, on the borders of 

 the salt-lake Tagarski osero, south of Minusinsk, and on the Ulu-kem Steppe. It begins 

 flowering about the middle of June. 



All the specimens from the localities mentioned are distinguished by having the 

 lobes of the corolla rather densely and distinctly ciliate, as also considerably shorter and 

 broader than in the typical plant. By their short, broad corolla-lobes the floAvers are 

 more suggestive of those to be found in the nearly allied species P. carinala. The corolla- 

 tube is brownish and rather densely pubescent. The flower proper is 3—3,5 mm. 

 long. The bracts generally reach up to about the summit of the sepals, only the 

 lower ones in each spike being frequently somewhat larger, and somewhat over- 



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