bracts, of which the inner ones are 7—8 mm. long, are of a dark green, with reddish violet 

 points, glabrous or very slightly hairy and dotted. The pappus is white, or rarely slight- 

 ly yellowish, never reddish or rust-coloured, of about the same length as the involucral 

 bracts, and, accordingly, not protruding, as in the typical form. The flowers are of about 

 the same length as the pappus. The achenes are somewhat flattened, slightiy silky-hairy 

 or nearly glabrous. 



The specimens thus especially differ from the typical E. elongatiis by having com- 

 paratively narrower leaves, fewer, more shortly peduncled and smaller heads, the invo- 

 lucres of which are campanulate, and by the pappus, which is white, of the same length 

 as the green involucre. This material much recalls specimens of /. politus (Fries spec), 

 which I have seen in Fries, Herbarium Normale Fasc. 15, no. 3, but also deviates from 

 the latter by a more vigorous growth, by a completely white pappus and a green 

 involucre. 



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

 stan, Siberia, northwards to past 70° north lat, eastwards to the Sea of Okhotsk, north- 

 ern Mongolia. The latter form is also recorded from North America. 



Brachyactis ciliata Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II, p. 495; KpBM. Oji. Ajit. Ill (1904) p. 597. Erige- 

 ron ciliaius Ledeh. Fl. Alt. IV, p. 92. Conyza altaica DC. Prodrom.V, p. 380; Karel. etKiril. 

 Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 433. 



On the steppes south of Minusinsk; with flowers in the first half of July. 



Distribution: Southern Siberia, eastwards to the government of Yeniseisk, western 

 Asia to Turkestan. 



Antennaria dioica Gartn. De Fruct. et Sem. II, p. 510; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 641; 

 Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 477; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II, p. 612; Turczan. Fl. Baical.- 

 Dahur. (1847) p. 7, no. 633; KptiJi. *ji. Ajit. Ill (1904) p. 599. Gnaphalium dioicum L. 

 Spec. PI. ed. II (1763) p. 1199; Ledeb. Fl. Alt IV, p. 55; Herder, PI. Radd. (1867) p. 412, 

 no. 137. 



Pretty common in the Sayansk district, in dry places in the subalpine woods about 

 the Upper Amyl, the rivers Algiac and Sisti-kem, where collected by me in several pla- 

 ces. All of the specimens collected belong to /. corymbosa Hartm. 



Distribution: Europe, Caucasia, western Asia, Siberia, northwards to about 08%" 

 north lat., eastwards to the Sea of Okhotsk, northern Mongolia. 



Leontopodium alpinum Cassini in Diet. Sc. Nat. XXV, p. 474; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. 

 PI. Fl. Alt. no. 478; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. E, p. 613; Kptiji. ^ji. Ajit. Ill (1904) p. 600. L. 

 sibiriciim Cass. I. c. p. 475; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 642; Ledeb. 1. c. p. 614; Turczan. Fl. 

 Baical.-Dahur. (1847) p. 8, no. 633. Gnaphalium Leontopodium Scop., Ledeb. Fl. Alt IV, 

 p. 56; Herder, PI. Radd. (1867) p. 417, no. 139. 



This species is very common in sandy meadows in woods, among Lan.r and Betula, 



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