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tenuifolium, several Artemisia, with Ranunculus amanus (n. sp.), 
Sisymbrium micranthum (n. sp.), Ballota lanata, several kinds 
of Leontodon, and, according as the soil is more or less salt, 
Glaux maritima, which frequently densely covers the ground, 
and the other formerly-enumerated saline plants. 
From 4,500 to an elevation of 6,500 Parisian feet, where 
Pinus Cembra marks the highest present boundary of the 
growth of trees, the Europzan species gradually diminish 
1o give place to the Flora of the Altai. Here grow most of 
the individuals of the genus Pedicularis, Sanguisorba alpina 
, (n. sp-) Primula nivalis, Veronica densiflora (n. sp.), Gentiana 
altaica, angulosa, glacialis, humilis and septemfida, Swertia 
obtusa (n. sp.), Athamanta compacta (n. sp.), Linum sibiricum, 
Lonicera hispida, Primula Pallasii, Viola altaica, uniflora 
and. Pinnata, Juncus triglumis, Epilobium alpinum, Cerastium 
alpinum, Saxifraga Hirculus, Mespilus uniflora (n. sp.), 
Potentilla macrantha (n. sp.), Aquilegia glandulosa, Ranunculus 
altaicus, Anemone narcissiflora, Dracocephalum | altaiense, 
Linnea borealis, Phlomis alpina, Cochlearia integrifolia, Macro- 
podium nivale, Oxytropis altaica, sulphurea (n. sp.), Doronicum 
altaicum, Erigeron alpinus, Frolovia lyrata (n. sp.), Leuzea 
altaica, Saussurea pycnocephala (n. sp.), a number of Willows, 
&c. The most central of these extended steppes, near the 
Tschuja, which rise one above another like terraces, and the 
highest of those which Bunge visited, situated towards the 
Western or lower end, at an elevation of 5,759 Parisian feet, is 
still more distinguished by its vegetation than those of inferior | 
elevation, situated on the banks of the Tscharysch and Koksun, 
being extremely arid, though sparingly producing, here and 
there, individual groupes of plants, and exhibiting such only 
as are entirely peculiar to itself. Two species of Anabasis, 
à new and shrub-like Atriplex, likewise an undescribed 
frutescent Chenopodium, and three new Zygophylla, a couple 
of novel, shrub-like, and very strongly scented Artemisie; 
Corydalis stricta in large bushes; some species of Ozytropis, 
with ` persistent prickly peduncles, some with verticillate 
leaflets, forming low shrubs; these, together with a few other 
Plants, form the whole of the certainly poor, but highly 
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