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The Apogon Section 
Distribution. Central Europe and Russia. 
France. St Symphorien (Char. Inf. (sic).? Gironde); Landes de Cadeuil, 1903, Neyrant (E). 
Germany. Brandenburg: Rudower Wiesen, 1854- (B). 
Nauen : Bredower Forst, 1886, Scheppig (B). 
Copenick, 1893, Diels. 
1900, Schulz (E). 
Brunswick Blankenburg a. H. 1848, Bauer (B). 
Anhalt: Bcrnburg, 18 — , — (BM). 
Silesia : Lissa near Breslau, 1881, Engler (B). 
Pomerania Bromberg, 18 — , Kiihling (B). 
Saxony: Nasse Aue near Dresden, 18 — , Rchb. f. (B) (BM). 
Meissen, 1852, Rchb. f. (B). 
Dresden, 1846, Gansauge (B). 
Stassfurth, 18 — , Coschke (BM). 
Rheinland: Beuel near Bonn, 1851, Blackic (E). 
Thuringia: Eckardtsberga, 1884, Gottschalk (B). 
Waldau near Osterfeld, 1880, Schliesshacke (B). 
Between Forst and Friedelsheim, 1848, Koch (B) (O). 
1852, Billot (BM). 
1852, Koch (C). 
Alsace: Benfeld, 1863, Nickles (B) (BM). 
1863, Koch (K). 
Hesse: Bingen, 1869, Winter (V). 
Palatinate : Diirkheim near Kaiserslautern, 1817, Koch (K). 
Frankenthal near Forst, 1845, Schultz (K). 
Bavaria. Regensburg (Ratisbon), 18 — , Martins (BM). 
18 — , Binder (V). 
18 — , Hoppe (B). 
Dachauer Moos, 18 — , Spitzel (V). 
Austria. Windischgarsten, 1865, Oberleitner (BM) (K). 
Wiener Neustadt, 1869, Sonklar (E). 
Salzburg: Salzburg, 1807, Steinack (B). 
Aigen, 18—, Stohl (B) (BM). 
Stiria : Mooskirchen, 18 — , Dominicus (B) (BM). 
Admont, 1907, Glatz and Strobl (B) (BM) (E) (V). 
Tirol: Rattenburg, 1887, Woynar (B). 
Camiolia: Dornegg in Reka Valley, 18 — , Paulin (BM). 
Switzerland. Zurich, 1849, Nageli (B), 1837 (E). 
1873 . Jaggi (K). 
Belp, 18 — , Hb. Otta (B). 
1838, Shuttleworth (C). 
Lake of Joux, 1836, Muret (K). 
Bale, 1830, Hb. Shuttleworth (BM). 
Schaffhausen, 1864, Assmann (C). 
Lugano, 1834, Thomas (K). 
Italy. Venice (Treviso), 1904, Pampanini (K) (O) (E). 
St Marcel and Aosta, 1822, Thomas (K). 
Russia. Dorpat (Jurjew), 1862, Gruner (BM). 
Lithuania; Korzenicw (Distr. Pinsk), 1893, Twardowska (V) (BM). 
Wilna, 18 — , Gortki (V). 
Perm; River Kama near Sludskoje, 1898, Sjuzew (V). 
Moscow; Ruposowo — Czerkizowo, 1898, Syrejsczikow (V). 
St Petersburg; River Luga near Preobrashenskaja, 1898, Mazaraky (E). 
Servia. Gornje — Milanovatz, 1896, Adamovic (V). 
Diagnosis. 
I. sibirica Apogon ; rhizoma gracile, dense caespitosum ; folia utrinque glaucescentia ; caulis 
fistulosus, foliis longior ; spathae multiflorae ; pedicelli longi, inaequales ; capsula brevis, rotundata, 
lateribus valde convexis ; semina magna, tenuia, compressa, suborbicularia. 
Description. 
Rootstock , a short-creeping and closely tufted rhizome, with fibrous remains of old leaves attached. 
Leaves , linear, slightly glaucous, not rigid, slightly tinged with pink at the ground level, £ — ^ in. 
by 12 — 24 in. 
Stem, hollow, much overtopping the leaves, bearing a terminal head of 2 — 5 flowers and usually 
a lateral head, a short distance below. Cf. Plate I. 
Spatkes, small, narrow, acute, entirely brown scarious at flowering time. 
Pedicels, from | — 3 in. long, increasing in length with the successive flowers. 
Ovary, trigonal. 
