broad, equalling or frequentlig exceeding the principal ones. The disc-flowers are yellow, 

 about twice the length of the involucre; the pappus is white, of about the same length as 

 the disc-flowers, or somewhat shorter, but always considerably longer than the involucre. 

 The rays occur to the number of 4—8, of a deep yellow; length of the ligule itself 15—18 

 mm. The achenes are glabrous. The leaves resemble those in the typical form, perhaps 

 somewhat narrower, completely glabrous or nearly so, only underneath, and especially 

 along the nerves, sometimes slightly and sparingly pubescent. The shape of the leaves 

 is, for the rest, considerably varying in the different specimens, narrower or broader, 

 sometimes very finely denticulate, sometimes more coarsely toothed at the margin. The 

 lower leaves are more or less distinctly petioled, with winged petioles, the upper ones 

 sessile, and mostly narrower than the lower ones. The stem is glabrate and slightly 

 striate. 



This variety has been collected by me in several places in the Amyl valley, about Ust 

 Algiac, and at Ust Kamsara, in moist, moss-grown places in the subalpine woods. It, 

 therefore, seemed to be widely distributed in the Sayansk district. It may, likewise, be of 

 a greater systematic value. In full flower, and with partly ripe fruits in the second half 

 of July. Besides this variety, I have collected, on islets in the river Abakan, a form with 

 the under sides of the leaves densely puberulent. Of the latter, however, I have only a 

 single specimen, with young flower-buds, and therefore I dare not identify it with certainty 

 with any of the forms already known. I only purpose hereby to draw attention to this one. 



Distribution: The species is distributed in middle and southern Europe, Caucasia, 

 Siberia, northwards to about 69 J4° north lat, eastwards to the Sea of Okhotsk, Turke- 

 stan, the Thian-Shan, northern Mongolia, Manchooria, northern Corea, China, Sakhalin, 

 Japan. 



Senecio campestris (Retz.) DC. Prodrom. VI, p. 361; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 650; 

 Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II, p. 646; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1847) p. 23, no. 647; Epbijr. $ji. 

 Ajit. Ill (1904) p. 676. Cineraria capilata et crispa y Schkuhrii in Ledeb. Fl. Alt. IV, p. 

 104. C. campestris Retz. Fl. Scand. Prodrom. I, p. 150; Herder, PI. Radd. (1867) p. 442, 

 no. 162. 



The specimens collected are characteristic in having the basal and lower leaves 

 generally narrowly elliptic, 3 — 4 cm. long, and 1,5 — 2 cm. broad, rarely more orbicular or 

 nearly cordiform, and rather distinctly detached from the petiole, which is of about 

 the same length as the blade, or somewhat shorter. The leaves are entire, or slightly ser- 

 rate at the margin. The stems are comparatively long, 30 — 40 cm. high, the stem-leaves 

 comparatively few, small, and appressed to the stem. The heads are rather small, 

 4 — 12, on an average 6—8 in each plant, on peduncles 1—2,5 cm. long, and of a pale, 

 yellow colour. The whole plant is tatteied tomentose and woolly-canescent, especially 

 so the stem and the under sides of the leaves. In a richer material this widely distributed 

 species proves to vary considerably, occurring in a leather great number of distinct local 

 types. Under these circumstances it also seemed difficult to make a nice distinction 



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