At Bjelosarsk. in thickets and in grass-grown places near the river, I have observed: 

 Lalhijnis pratensis. Gdliiiin horeolr. Inula britaniiird. Inula salicina. Adenophora 

 maisupiiflorn, Hemerocnlis flaua, Melilolus dentalus. Polentilla bifurca, Potentilla frnticosa. 

 Potentilla viscosa. Potenlilla flagrllarix. and in drv places, sucii as steppe-meadows, on 

 declivities, etc. occur Sisiimbrium nf/icinalc. Ghjcijrrhiza iintlensis, Panzeria lanata, 

 Stipa pennata var. Joannis. Caragana piigmaea. Cnraqana Bnngei. Chamaerhodos erecla, 

 Serratula nitidn inu . glnaca, Slatice speciosa, Irtica cannabina. and Gypsophila Gnwlini. 

 In moist meadows, I have, moreover, lonnd here Cenolophhim Fischeri. Of the 

 earlier vegetation at this lime onlv remains were left. 



Fig. (W. Typical sceiieiy li'oui the bkppis abuul tlic L'lii Ucm .Sin ul) slcppe, willi Sti/xt 

 and scattered buslies of Canigana Ihingci. and Caragana spinosa. To Itie left a brancli of 



tlie river, with thicket of Salix. 



Further westwards the mighty river flows calmly through a completely woodless 

 land, only the banks and the islets in the river being clad with shrubs and trees, con- 

 sisting of various species of Salix. Belula ucrrucosa. and here and there some isolated 

 Larix. Among the other trees, for the rest, to be found here may be mentioned: 



Popnlus tremula. Populiis laurifolia, Populus nigra. Alniis fruiicosa. Crataegus 

 sanguinea, and Cornus alba. 



Here are to be met with in many places the typical s h r u b - s t e p p e s, being 

 intermediate between the genuine steppe and the xerophile copse. These shrub-steppes 

 constitute a plant society characteristic of the rocky steppes in central and soufh-western 

 Asia, and are of very common occurrence on the steppes along the Ulu-kem. Here the 



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