top the calyx. The bracts are slightly navicularly clapped together along the 

 midrib, and furnished along the outer side of the latter with a rather prominent 

 keel, which is rather coarsely and deeply dentate or hispid. The sepals themselves are 

 about 2 mm. long, oblong, obtuse or subacute, with a broad, green midrib, and narrow, 

 scarious margins, densely and distinctly hirsute. The leaves are linear, entire, glabrate, 

 or only sparingly pubescent, 1- or 3-nerved, or sometimes also without distinct nerves. 

 In point of external habitus, the subspecies ciliata, for the rest, completely resembles the 

 typical form. As this subspecies has been found by me in localities far apart — in Sibe- 

 ria and in the Urjankai country — there is reason to believe that it is more widely distri- 



Fig. 111. Plantago maritima L. subspec. ciliata nov. subspec. 

 a. Perfect flower. — b. Flower, the calyx removed (i^/O. 



buted in these districts. As the typical form is not to be found at all in my material brought 

 home, there is some probability that the latter is really replaced, in the main or alto- 

 gether, by this subspecies. 



Distribution: The main species occurs along the shores and in saline soil throughout 

 Europe, south-western Asia, Siberia, northern Mongolia, Manchooria, SakhaUn, North 

 Africa, North America, Greenland. 



Rubiaceae JUSS. 



Asperula odorata L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1762) p. 150; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I, p. 139; Ledeb. Fl. 

 Ross. II, p. 400; Herder, Addend, et Emend, ad PI. Radd. (1881) p. 145; Kpi,M. fD.n. Ajit. 

 Ill (1904) p. 556. 



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