The vegetation occurring in thickets and meadows also paiily consists of plants 

 which are characteristic of drier tracts. The following have been recorded by me as the 

 most usual: 



Fig. 53. Look-out on the wood steppe on the Upper Beikem, near 



Ust Tara-kem. Scattered trees of larch, biich, and also some straf4g- 



ling spruces. The forest-ground is light and open, here and there 



with rather small and dry natural meadows. 



Sanguisorba officinalis, CampimuUi rotandifolia, Thalictram minus, Rumex ai if alius, 

 Cypripedilum macrnnthon, Sisiiinbrium Sophia. Eriisimum hie racii folium. Ranunculus 

 aciis, Alchemilla vulgaris. Hgpochaeris maculata. Genliana delonsa. Planlago media. 

 Equisetum arvense, Alopecurus pialensis, Avena pubescens, Elijmus sibiricus, Tiifolium 

 Lupinaster, Rosa acicularis, Galium boreale, Senecio nemorensis var. macer. Inula 

 britannica, Polemonium coeruleum, Cerastium pilosum, Hgpericum peiforatum, Hypericum 

 hirsutiim. Geranium sibiricum. Geum Aleppicum. Rubus idueus, Lilium Martagon, Rubus 

 humulifolius, Epilobium angustifulium. Erigeron acer. Tanacetum vulgare, Artemisia 

 vulgaris. Cacalia haslala, Cirsium serraluloides. Chelidonium majus var. granaiflorum. 

 Bupleurum muliinerve, Hieracium umbellatum. Pedicularis euphrasioides. Leonurus 

 iataricus. Cypripedilum gullalum. Polygonaliun officinale. Luziila campestiis, Mulgediuin 

 aziireum. Vicia amoena, Urtica dioica, Rumex crispus. Tiienlalis europaea, Linnaea 

 borealis, Vaccinium Myrlillus, Vaccinium vitis idaea. Pyiola rolundifolia var. incainata, 

 Pyrola secunda. Goodyera repens. Lycopodium clauatum, Lycopodium complanatiim, 

 Equisetum silvalicum. Athyrium crenaium. Polypodiiim vulgare. and in sliohtly moister 

 places, ill grass-orown, partly irrijiated fields, in bogs and on l)anks, etc. are to be found: 



Calamagrostis neglecta. Calamagrostis Langsdorffii. Archangelica decurrens, 

 Heracleum dissectum, Pleurospermum austriacum, Betula humilis, Vaccinium uliginosum 



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