Inula salicina L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1763) p. 1238; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. IV, p. 93; Turczan. 

 Cat. Baical. no. 599; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II, p. 504; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1846) p. 

 162, no. 585; Herder, PI. Radd. (1865) p. 396, no. 66; KpBiJi. $ji. Ajit. Ill (1904) p. 605. 



The specimens collected are characteristic in having the narrow, cylindrical ache- 

 nes sometimes even rather densely beset with fine, spreading, curly, white, silky hairs, 

 and not completely glabrous as in the Scandinavian ones. The achenes are, for the rest, 

 rather varying in hairiness, being sometimes very densely, nearly white^canescent, with 

 all transitions to very sparsely pubescent. Completely glabrous achenes, however, are not 

 to be found in the material collected by me from southern Siberia. In the specimens rays 

 are wanting or much reduced, whereby agreeing with /. discoidea N. Bryhn. There 

 are to be found completely glabrous as well as more or less hairy specimens. The stem 

 is generally pubescent below, glabrous or sometimes sparsely glandulous above. In point 

 of external habitus, for the rest, the specimens agree perfectly with Scandinavian mate- 

 rial of comparison. 



Occurring on islets in the river Abakan, in thickets along the banks, etc., where I 

 have collected young, as yet flowerless specimens in June, and also about Kushabar, 

 where I have collected it in flower and with young fruits about the middle of July. At the 

 end of August found by me about Bjelosarsk, in thickets near the river. 



Distribution: Europe, northwards to middle Scandinavia, Caucasia, south-western 

 Asia to Turkestan, northern Mongolia, Siberia, northwards to about 61° north latitude, 

 and eastwards to the Amoor Province, Manchooria, Corea, China, Japan. 



Inula britannica L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1763) p. 1237; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. IV, p. 94; Turczan. 

 Cat. Baical. no. 600; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 435; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II, p. 505; 

 Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1846) p. 162, no. 586; Herder, PI. Radd. (1865) p. 396, no. 67; 

 KpBijr. $ji. Ajlt. Ill (1904) p. 606. 



In Asia this species is subjected to great variations. The specimens collected are com- 

 paratively low, generally 15 — 20, rarely to 30 cm. high, each plant only with 1 — 2, or rarely 

 3 very small heads, only 2,3 — 2,5 cm., rarely to 3 cm. in diameter. The pappus comparative- 

 ly short, on an average about 4 mm. long, the hairs on the achene rather spreading, not 

 appressed. The leaves are comparatively narrow, to 11 mm. broad, and 6 — 7 times as 

 long, entire, or only with nearly imperceptible, scattered teeth, greyish-tomentose beneath, 

 glabrous or nearly so above. The stem is densely pubescent, sometimes glandulous in 

 the upper part. Young specimens, with flowers as yet not fully opened, have been found 

 by me at Ust Abakansk, in open brush-wood, near the banks of the river, and with fully 

 opened flowers at the beginning of August, near the mouth of the Kamsara, and at 

 Bjelosarsk. 



Distribution: Europe, from southern Sweden to France, northern Italy and Turkey, 

 Caucasia, south-western Asia to Turkestan, Siberia, northwards to 6834° north lat, east- 

 wards to the Sea of Okhotsk, northern Mongolia, Manchooria, Corea, Sakhahn, Japan. 



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