Pretty common in the Altaian, at an altitude of about 2000 m. above sea-level, espe- 

 cially in places grown with mosses and lichens, on moist, shady declivities facing north, 

 where I have collected it accompanying Cardamine bellidifolia, Papauer imdicaule 

 subspec. xanthopetaliim, Ranunculus altaicus, etc. In full flower at the end of July. 



Distribution: Arctic Russia, Novaya Zemlya, arctic and alpine portions of Siberia 

 to Behring's Ocean to the east, Turkestan, the Altai and Sayansk regions, northern Mon- 

 golia. 



Valeriana officinalis L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1762) p. 45; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 575; 

 Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II, p. 438; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1845) p. 321, no. 563 (incl. V. 

 heterophylla Turczan. 1. c. p. 321, no. 562); Herder, PI. Radd. (1864) p. 228, no. 29; ibid. 

 1881, p. 178; KpBM. <I)j. Ajlt. Ill (1904) p. 570. 



This species is pretty common in the territory explored, where occurring in a 

 series of different varieties, between which there are to be found intermediates. Besides 

 the typical plant, I have collected specimens of var. dubia Hunge (spec), var. hetero- 

 phylla Turczan. (1. c. spec), and var. angusiifolia Rupk. 



On the islets in the river Abakan the species begins flowering in the middle of June. 

 It was very common on the islets in the rivers Abakan and Yenisei, at Karatus and 

 Kushabar, in the Amyl valley, at Ust Algiac, Ust Si'sti-kem, and at Ust Kamsara. 



Distribution: Europe. Caucasia and south-western Asia to Turkestan, the Hima- 

 layas, Cashmere, Siberia, northwards to 70° north lat. and eastwards to the Pacific 

 Ocean, Manchooria, Corea, China, northern Mongolia, Sakhalin, Japan, North America 

 (introduced). 



Patrinia sibirica Jussieu in Ann. Mus. X, p. 311; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. I, p. 131; Turczan. 

 Cat. Baical. no. 571; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 413; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II, p. 

 426; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1845) p. 317, no. 558; Herder, PI. Radd. (1864) p. 223, 

 no. 25; ibid. 1881, p. 173; KpLui. <D.i. A.it. Ill (1904) p. 565. 



Pretty common on the tops of the ridges on the Abakan Steppe, where especially 

 occurring on dry, gravelly declivities, together with some few other plants, such as 

 Thymus Serpyllum, Arctogerron gramineus, and the like. Collected in full flower, with 

 half ripe fruits about the middle of June. This species varies rather much in the 

 height of the stem, in the size, shape, and incisions of the leaves, as well as in the 

 pubescence. On the stem there is generally to be found one pair of opposite leaves, the 

 place of which, for the rest, is quite accidental, sometimes to be found quite at the top, 

 very near the flower cluster or farther down, sometimes quite below, almost at the base 

 of the stem, where, however, they are readily distinguished from the real basal leaves by 

 having generally deeper incisions than the basal ones, which are sometimes nearly 

 entire. At any rate, to judge from my material, there is never to be found more than 

 one pair of stem-leaves, but they always seemed to be traceable, although, in many cases, 

 being displaced right down to the base of the stem. 



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