having the ovaries glabrous, never hairy („Germina -villosa" Ledeb. F1. Alt.). Krylow 

 also reports 1. c: ,,3aBH3b BO-iocHCTaa". It appears from the following statement of Lede- 

 bour's that the ripe fruits have been unknown to him: „Fructus maturi desunt" (Fl. 



Ah.) and „germinibus villosis, fructibus " (Fl. Ross.). Nor does Krylow seem to 



know the ripe fruits, as he does not mention them in his description of the species. In my 

 specimens the ripe fruits are about 1 mm. in diameter, glabrous, or, examined by means 

 of a powerful lens, very finely and slightly warty on the surface, but never hairy. 

 Whether the fruits be warty in the Avay described when fresh, or the warts be produced 

 by the drying, I must leave unsettled. Ledebour's statement of the leaves being „hori- 

 zontalia" does not agree with my specimens either, in which they are more or less 

 appressed, only with the exception of the lower ones. The stems are quadrangular, glab- 

 rous, except below the nodes, where they are finely, but distinctly puberulent. For the 

 rest, the specimens agree with the earlier description. The pedicels, of about the 

 same length as the bracts, are angular and sulcate, frequently nearly winged, glabrous, 

 or they may frequently be thinly sprinkled with short, stiff bristles. In distinction of the 

 form described here, I propose the one described by Ledeboir to be entered as /. 

 geniiina. 



Occurring on the steppes on the Yenisei, between Minusinsk and Ust Abakansk, 

 where collected by me with flowers and a few ripe fruits, June 30th. 



Distribution: Near Smejov (Ledeboui-, Fl. Alt.), and near Minusinsk. 



Galium veriim L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1762) p. 155; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I, p. 138; Turczan. 

 Cat. Baical. no. 567; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 412; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II, p. 414; 

 Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1845) p. 315, no. 557; Herder, PI. Radd. (1864) p. 221, no. 24; 

 K,pM.i. <&j. Ajit. Ill (1904) p. 561. 



The most common form of this one is /. leiorarpiiin DC, with glabrous fruits. The 

 stems, especially in the lower parts, are always covered with dense and fine, short, downy 

 hairs, while the leaves, as a rule, are glabrous, at any rate on the upper side. This form 

 appeared to be the most common one in the territory explored. 



Besides, I have collected near Kushabar. on dry hills, some specimens of f. trachy- 

 carpuin DC. (/. lasiocarpum Ledeb., G. nithenicum Willd., Ledeb. Fl. Alt I, p. 138), 

 with hairy fruits. Besides, the stem and the under side of the leaves in this form being 

 always covered with very short and dense, downy hairs, the upper side of the leaves, as 

 well, is frequently found to be beset with more or less scattered hairs. Intermediates be- 

 tween the said forms did not appear to be rare either. 



Rather common in the territory explored, especially in dry meadows and on dry 

 hills, on sunny declivities, etc., on the islets in the river Abakan, and on the Abakan 

 Steppe, in several places between Minusinsk and Kushabar, at Ust Sisti-kem, near Ust 

 Kamsara, at Ust Tara-kem, and on the Tapsa. On the Abakan Steppe the species does not 

 begin flowering till the end of June. 



Distribution: Europe, except the extreme northern regions, Caucasia, south-western 



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