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Höhn, Mária: Vascular flora of the Kelemen (Calimani) Mts on the side of the Maros (Mures) river drainage area

montana, Cirsium heterophyHum, Melampyrum saxosum and Aconitum paniculatum. Some species spreading from the Eperjes-Kassa line to the South will reach in the Kelemen Mts their southern border, e.g. Puimonaria rubra and Hieracium transsilvanicum. Generally, he considered that the flora of the Kelemen Mts is relatively poor. Because he treated altogether the "Bistritzer Alpen" it is not possible to separate data concerning this territory. There are valorous data in FEKETE and BLATTNY's book (1913), concerning the area of woody species. In case of many species like Pinus cembra, Rhododendron kotschyi and Vaccinium uliginosum they indicated the exact occurrence. They mentioned the occurrence of Taxus baccata in II va and Tihuta valleys, declared it as an endangered species. I did not find it already in these parts. The first detailed description about the Toplica-Déda defile belongs to E. I. NYÁRÁDY from 1933. He characterised the main vegetation formations and enumerated the existing species, e.g. 54 species from woods, 45 species from wet meadows and mires along the river, and more than 80 species from grasslands. The species mentioned by NYÁRÁDY from the defile are existing even today, as they are represented in my collection, too. However, the flora of the territory is more rich. In the time of the second world war B. ZÓLYOMI had been in the Kelemen Mts, where he studied the peatbog vegetation. He collected the peat moss species and brought them for Á. BOROS for identification, who kept the duplicates. ZÓLYOMI (1941) described a new data for the flora of Romania, Carex heleonastes from the Cica plateau. But most of their data disappeared. ZÓLYOMI'

s data were included in the big synopsis on the Romanian peatbogs by E. POP (1960). The eastern part - the mountain ridge - was studied by I. CSŰRÖS. His published the first detailed floristical and vegetation study about the subalpine and alpine zone in 1950. Because he climbed up from the other part, from Beszterce (Bistrita), the data concerning the vegetation of the forest zone have only indicative value. He mentioned about 300 species and 8 coenological relevés among that 2 are concerned with the territory. The collected plants are probably in herbarium of Museum Grigore Antipa, Bucharest. I had no opportunity to study it. Concerning some rare species he did not gave the precise locality so these records could not have been confirmed. New floristical data were published by G. VlDA (1958). He pointed out the existence of Ranunculus crenatus, Salix herbacea, and a new variety of Hypochoeris uniflora. AL. BELDIE (1967) has a very detailed enumeration about the endemic, subendemic species of the Romanian Carpathians. He did not include, e.g. Viola dacica, Centaurea carpatica, Sempervivum marmoreum, Senecio papposus and Veronica baumgartenii in the flora of the Kelemen Mts.