scallered and narrower, to linear. The flowers are of an azure colour, about 15 — 20 ram. 

 long, with protruding styles. Collected in full flower in July. 



Distribution: The species is distributed from the eastern part of middle Europe, from 

 East-Prussia to the north, Switzerland, Bohemia, Austria, to northern Italy to the south, 

 and eastwards through middle and southern Russia, Caucasia, south-western Asia to Rus- 

 sian Turkestan, southern Siberia, northwards to about 57° north lat, northern Mongolia, 

 Corea, northern China, Japan. 



Compositae Adans. 



Solidago Virgaurea L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1763) p. 1235; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. IV, p. 101; 

 Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 598; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 431; Ledeb. Fl. 

 Ross. II, p. 493; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1846) p. 160, no. 584; Herder, PL Radd. 

 (1865) p. 394, no. 64; KpBiJi. $ji. Ajit. Ill (1904) p. 583. 



It appears from the material brought home, originating from various parts of 

 southern Siberia and the Urjankai country, that the species, here is glabrate, only the 

 upper parts of the stem and the branches in the thyrsus being generally slightly hairy. 

 The leaves are comparatively narrow, entire, or the lower ones very slightly dentate, 

 glabrous, also along the nerves, always distinctly, but shortly ciliate. The specimens are 

 also characteristic in having the achenes nearly glabrate, only very slightly hairy, never 

 so much as is especially the case in Scandinavian specimens, in which the achenes are 

 nearly pubescent; in their lower half they are generally even completely glabrous, only 

 the upper half of the achenes being beset with scattered, short hairs. At Ust Algiac I have 

 also collected specimens of a form with completely glabrous achenes, with the exception 

 of being sometimes furnished with some few short, scattered hairs in their uppermost 

 parts. The bracts of the involucre are also generally completely glabrous. The branches 

 of the thyrsus are generally short, bearing only one head. The ligules of the ray- 

 flowers are sometimes seen to be distinctly toothed. 



This species is pretty common in the territory traversed; in the Altaian I have 

 collected it right up to 2000 m. above sea-level, in flower and with young fruits in June and 

 July. Collected or noted by me in the following localities: about Minusinsk, at Karatus 

 and Kushabar, along the river Amyl (common), Ust Algiac, the AUaian, Ust Sisti-kem, 

 Ust Kamsara, Ust Tara-kem, about the Dora Steppe, and in several places along the banks 

 of the Bei-kem. 



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

 and the Himalayas, Siberia, northwards to past 70° north latitude, and eastwards to 

 Behring's Ocean and the Sea of Okhotsk, northern Mongolia, eastern Asia, Sakhalin, 

 Japan, North America. 



Aster alpinus L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1763) p. 1226; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. IV, p. 95; Turczan. 

 Cat. Baical. no. 580; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 422; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II, p. 472; 



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