Distribution: Eastern Russia, southern Siberia, eastwards roughly to Lake Baikal, 

 south-western Asia, the northern Himalayas, northern Mongolia, northern China. 



Artemisia commutata Besser, Dracunc. etc. (1835) p. 70; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 

 614; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II, p. 567; KptiJE. cM. Ajit. Ill (1904) p. 635. A. campestris Ledeb. Fl. 

 Alt. IV, p. 86, ex parte; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1846) p. 185, no. 604; Herder, PI. 

 Radd. (1867) p. 206, no. 101. 



This species is very nearly allied to Artemisia campestris L., and is distinguished 

 Irom it only by comparatively trite characters, occurring as a substitute for this species 

 in eastern Asia. All of the specimens collected are rather densely pubescent, with 

 rather small heads, the length of which is about 2—2,5 mm.; they therefore belong to 

 /. allaica Krylow, 1. c. Occurring scattered on the Abakan Steppe, near Ust Kamuishto, 

 especially on dry, stony slopes, where I have collected it with young, as yet not fully 

 developed heads in the second half of June. 



Distribution: Southern Siberia, roughly from the Altai region, northwards to about 

 64° north latitude, eastwards to the Amoor Province, northern Mongolia. 



Artemisia scoparia Waldst. et Kit. PI. Rar. Hungar. I, p. 66; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. IV, p^ 

 87; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 615; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 454; Ledeb. Fl. 

 Ross, n, p. 569; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1846) p. 189, no. 606; Herder, PI. Radd. 

 (1867) p. 210, no. 102; Kptiji. <Pjl. Ajit. Ill (1904) p. 637. 



On stony and gravelly river-banks, and on islets in the river Abakan, near Ust 

 Abakansk. Specimens collected in the last days of June, are young, scarcely 20 cm. 

 high, and completely flowerless. The specimens are characteristic in being densely 

 silky-pubescent all over, and I therefore consider them to be identical with /. villosa Fr0l. 

 in Abh. Phys.-0k. Ges. Konigsberg (1887), which — at any rate according to the diag- 

 nosis — do not seem to be different from /. sericea Komarow, $ji. MaHtiatypiii III 

 (1907) p. 652. 



Distribution: Middle and south-eastern Europe, Caucasia, south-western Asia to Tur- 

 kestan, Afghanistan, Tibet, the Himalayas and northern India, southern Siberia, north- 

 wards roughly to 58° north lat., eastwards to the Sea of Okhotsk, northern Mongolia, 

 Manchooria, Corea, China, Japan. 



Artemisia maritima L. Spec. PL ed. II (1763) p. 1186; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II, p. 570; 

 Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1846) p. 190, no. 607; Herder, PI. Radd. (1867) p. 211, no. 103; 

 KpBM. $jr. A.IT. Ill (1904) p. 639. 



On the Abakan Steppe, in saliferous soil, near salt marshes. Young, flowerless spe- 

 cimens at the end of June. 



Distribution: Europe, northwards to southern Scandinavia, Caucasia and south- 

 western Asia to Persia, Afghanistan, Turkestan, Tibet and the Himalayas, southern Sibe- 

 ria, eastwards to Trans Baikal, northern Mongolia. 



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