We have studied the total alkaloids present in various organs of Nitr~ga sibirica Pall. as functions of the vegetation period. Attempts were first made to determine the optimum method of extraction, as previously for N. komarovii [i]: the same amounts of samples of the comminuted plant were extracted in parallel by three methods: i) with a 2% solution of acetic acid in chloroform; 2) with methanol; and 3) with chloroform after the plant had been wetted with an 8% solution of ammonia.The purest combined material and the best yield of it were obtained by the use of the third method, which is that generally adopted for the isolation of mixtures of bases, and we subsequently used only this method.The amounts of alkaloids in the buds, flowers, leaves, stems, seeds, fruit, and roots of plants collected in the environs of the village of Rybach'e (KirgSSR) were as follows: