Distribution,: Southern Siberia, eastwards to the Amoor Province, Manchooria, 

 Corea, southern China, SakhaUn, Japan. 



Lampsana communis L. Spec. PI. ed. 11 (1763) p. 1141; Ledeb. Fl. Alt. IV, p. 166; 

 Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II, p. 770; Kptiji. c5ji. Am. Ill (1904) p. 725. 



Here and there about the Lower Sisti-kem, among dry, stony debris, in thickets, 

 etc. In flower and in part done flowering at the end of July and the beginning of August 



Distribution: Europe, except the most northern parts and the south of the Balkan 

 Peninsula, Caucasia and south-western Asia, Cashmere, southern Siberia, eastwards to 

 towards Lake Baikal, North Africa. 



Tragopogon pratensis L. Spec. PI. ed. II (1763) 1109. 



var. orientalis (L. spec.) Herder, PI. Radd. (1870) p. 100, no. 214; KpBM. $ji. Ajet. 

 Ill (1904) p. 729. T. orientalis L., Ledeb. FL, Alt. IV, p. 157; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. 

 Alt. no. 537; Ledeb. Fl. Ross. II, p. 786; Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1848) p. 93, no. 691. 



Pretty common in somewhat dry meadows on the Abakan Steppe, and in open 

 brush-wood on islets in the river Abakan, about Kushabar, at Ust Algiac, and at Ust 

 Sisti-kem. In flower in June and July, with fruits in August. 



This variety is readily distinguished by its large heads of a dark or orange yellow, 

 and by having generally the leaves rolled back into a spiral. There seemed, however, to 

 occur intermediates to the typical plant. 



Distribution: The species is distributed over the greater part of Europe, except the 

 extreme north and south, Caucasia, south-western Asia to the Thian-Shan, Tibet, the 

 Himalayas, Pamir, southern Siberia, eastwards towards Lake Baikal, northern Mongo- 

 lia. The variety orientalis is especially to be found in the eastern area of the species, 

 ranging westwards as fas as north-eastern Germany. 



Scorzonera austriaca Willd. Spec. PI. Ill, p. 1499. 



var. linearifolia Turczan. Fl. Baical.-Dahur. (1848) p. 95, no. 692; Kpi,i.i. $jr. Ajt. 

 Ill (1904) p. 732. S. graminifolia a angustifolia Ledeb. Fl. Alt. IV, p. 161. 5. austriaca 

 Willd., Turczan. Cat. Baical. no. 700; Karel. et Kiril. Enum. PI. Fl. Alt. no. 541; Ledeb. 

 Fl. Ross. II, p. 792; Herder, PI. Radd. (1870) p. 100, no. 215. 



Pretty common on the steppes about the rivers Yenisei and Abakan, where I have 

 collected specimens in full flower in the month of June. The material of this species 

 brought home, is characteristic in having the stems low, one-flowered, only 4—10 cm. 

 high, thus, as a rule, shorter than the basal leaves, and destitute of stem-leaves, or only 

 with few, short, small, nearly scaly ones. The basal leaves are narrow, 3—6 mm. broad, 

 1, to 3-nerved, frequently undulate at the margin, or the whole leaf sometimes much twist- 

 ed into a spiral, now and then conduplicate. This variety is probably indentical with f. 

 stenophylla Beck v. Mannagetta, Fl. Nied. Oester. II (1893) p. 1325. 



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



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