1б2 FLORA OF THE MUNNI-ULA. 



lousewort (Pedicularis resupinatd), the columbine 

 {Aqttilegia vij'idiflord), the nonsuch {Medicago liipu- 

 lind), the speedwells [Veronica Sibirica and another), 

 the elecampane {Imila Britannicd), three or four 

 varieties of Ranunculi, the avens {Gciim strictuni), the 

 iris iyAdenophora sp.), the milfoil {^Achillea Mongolicd), 

 and in dry places the nightshade {Solanum sp.) and 

 nettle {Urtica angustifolid). 



Lastly, blossoming on the unwooded hillsides 

 were the carnation [Diant/ms Seguieri), the rocket 

 {Hesperis trichocephald), the poppy [Papaver Alpi- 

 mwi), the yellow stonecrop {Scdum aisooii), the 

 wolf's bane, or globe thistle i^Echinops Datcricus), 

 the onion [Allumi sp.), Koeleria cristata^ Statice sp. 

 Paradanthus, and others. 



In general the flora of the Munni-ula reminded 

 me a good deal of that of Siberia, although these 

 forests are very different to ours in the north. Here 

 there is none of that luxuriant vegetation which 

 excites the admiration of the traveller on the banks 

 of the Amur and Ussuri. The trees are not high, 

 and their trunks are slender, the bushes are low and 

 stunted, and the withered branches of the willows 

 protruding from the living trees are unsightly objects 

 amid the prevailing verdure. The mountain brooks, 

 which are almost all full of running water in the 

 wooded ravines, no sooner enter the more open 

 valleys, or issue from the margin of the range, than 

 they entirely disappear beneath the soil, leaving dry 

 beds in which the water only collects after heavy 

 rain ; the forests too have been ruthlessly destroyed 



