upper parts furnished with rather long, spreading branches. The upper parts of the stem 

 are beset with rather long, spreading hairs. The bracts of the involucre rather densely 

 ciliate, only sparingly glandulous, or sometimes nearly wanting glandulair hairs. On 

 the islets in the Lower Abakan I have collected, among stones and gravel, specimens 

 somewhat recalling this one, and possibly constituting intermediates between the 2 above 

 forms. Collected, with flower-buds and some few flowers just opened, in the second half 

 of June. Quite typical specimens of /. medius do not occur in my collections from the 

 Minusinsk district. 



Distribution: The steppe regions of southern Siberia, eastwards to the Amoor Pro- 

 vince, northern Mongolia, southwards to northern Persia and Turkestan, Afghanistan, 

 Baloochistan, Tibet and the Himalayas. This species is also recorded from eastern 

 Asia, where it has possibly been confounded with Heteropappus hispidus Less. 



Arctogeron gramineus (L.) DC. Prodrom. V, p. 261; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 597; 

 Ledeb. Fl. Ross. IL p. 484; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1846) p. 155, no. 579; Herder, PI. 

 Radd. (1865) p. 388, no. 59. Erigeron gramineus L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1763) p. 1212. 



Pretty common on the Abakan Steppe, near Askys and Ust Kamuishto, where espe- 

 cially occurring on dry, hot and sunny Devonian rocks of sandstone, associated with 

 Ephedra vulgaris, Atraphaxis frutescens, etc. Specimens collected in the middle of June 

 are already nearly past flowering. Ledebour, 1. c, records „Folia radicalia angustis- 

 sime linearia dense ciliata." All of the specimens collected by me, however, have the 

 leaves completely glabrous and shining, only sometimes with a single row of rather short, 

 coarse, and slightly appressed bristles along the margin. The peduncle is 5 — 10 cm. high, 

 sulcate, densely beset with rather long, diffuse, curly hairs, bearing generally a single 

 linear leaf, 6—7 mm. long, and 0,5 mm. broad, frequently arising above the middle of the 

 peduncle. Like the basal leaves, it is completely glabrous, only ciliate, and seemed to 

 wither and fall off already during the ripening of the fruit. The achenes are 4—5 mm. 

 long, 1,5—2 mm. broad, slightly compressed and curved, and densely beset with long, 

 appressed hairs of a shining silver-white. 



Distribution: South-eastern Siberia. 



Galatella punctata Lindl. in DC. Prodrom. V, p. 255; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. H, p. 478; 

 Herder, PI. Radd. (1865) p. 383, no. 51; Kptur. $ji. Ajlt.. Ill (1904) p. 591. Aster dracun- 

 culoides L., Ledeb. Fl. Alt. IV, p. 97. 



On dry, open declivities at Ust Kamsara, and in wooded steppes, larch forest, and the 

 like, about Ust Tara-kem. Flowering and past flowering in the second half of August. 



Distribution: Southern and eastern Europe, south-western Asia, southern Siberia, 

 eastwards to about the government of Irkutsk, noiihern Mongolia. 



Galatella daurica DC. Prodrom. V, p. 256; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 587; Ledeb. Fl. 

 Ross. II, p. 480; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1846) p. 148, no. 573; Herder, PI. Radd. 



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