This species is scattered in the subalpine wooded tracts about the Upper Amyl, 

 where I have collected it on the Arradansk heights, about Kalna and the Upper Sisti- 

 kem. There are to be found here/, glabra Ledeb. 1. c, and /. vulgaris Ledeb. 1. c. In 

 full flower in July and the first half of August. 



Distribution: Arctic and alpine tracts of Europe, southwards to northern Italy, 

 Novaya Zemlya, Siberia, northwards to Taimur, in latitude 75° 15' north, and east- 

 wards to the Tshuktsher Peninsula and Kamtchatka, the Altai and Sayansk regions, 

 northern Mongolia, the Thian-Shan, Pamir, North America. 



Saussurea discolor DC. in Annal. Mus. Hist. Nat. Paris XVI, p. 199; Ledeb. Fl. Alt 



IV, p. 27; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 690; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II, p. 668; Turczan. Fl. Baical.- 

 Dahur. (1847) p. 40, no. 660; Herder, PI. Radd. (1868) p. 29, no. 182; KpLM. $ji. Ajit. Ill 

 (1904) p. 707. 



In dry, sandy woods of larch and pine at Ust Sisti-kem; in full flower about the 

 middle of August. 



Distribution: On the mountains of middle and southern Europe, Siberia, Manchoo- 

 ria, northern Mongolia. 



Saussurea Frolowii Ledeb. Fl. Alt. W, p. 15; KpBijt. $ji. Ajit. Ill (1904) p. 711. Hap- 

 lotaxis Frolowii (Ledeb.) DC. Prodrom. VI, p. 538; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 

 506; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II, p. 672. 



Of this species there is only one specimen in my collections, taken in the Altaian, 

 about the tree limit, in slightly open, grass-grown places. The specimen, taken by the 

 end of July, has a single, fully opened head. The leaves are 16 — 20 cm. long, and the 

 breadth of the large, triangular terminal lobe 5 — 6 cm; the upper side is completely glab- 

 rous, the under side densely arachnoid. Breadth of the solitary, nodding head 3,5 cm. 

 when pressed. The pappus 11 mm. long, the fruit completely glabrous. 



Distribution: The species has previously been found in Russian Turkestan and in 

 the government of Tomsk (the Altai region), but does not seem to have been observed 

 heretofore so far east as the Sayansk district (northern Mongolia). 



Serratula nitida Fischer ex Spreng. Syst. Veg. Ill, p. 390. 



var. glauca (Ledeb.) Trautv. Enum. PI. Songor. no. 683; Herder, PI. Radd. (1870) p. 

 95, no. 210; Kptiji. ^Ji. Ajit. Ill (1904) p. 715. S. glauca Ledeb. in Mem. Acad. St. Petersb. 



V, p. 560; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. IV, p. 38, excl. syn. Gmel.; Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 662; Ledeb. 

 Fl. Ross. II, p. 758; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1847) p. 64, no. 686. 



Pretty common on the Abakan Steppe, especially on dry, stony declivities or in dry, 

 grass-grown places. I have collected it near Askys, at Ust Kamuishto, and near Ust Aba- 

 kansk. In full flower in the middle and second half of June. The heads are 2—3 cm. 

 in diameter. Withering remains of the species also occur near Bjelosarsk, on declivities 

 and in steppe meadows at the end of August. 



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