sangiiinolenta, and Cirsium acaiile, here and there Caragnna arboresceiu ami Vicia 

 coslata; near the hank of the river are sometimes to l)e found: 



Melilolus albiis. Mi'lilolus dentatiis. Potentilla anseiina. ConvolDulns awensis. 

 Mijricaria daviirica, and Asparagus Pallasi nov. noin. 



In places where the sahferous soil has stamped the scenery, are to he found such 



plants as: 



Oxglropis glabra. Statice Gmelini. Plantago Cornuti. Plantago mariliiud stibspec. 

 ciliata nov. siib.spec.. Salicornia herbacea. and Lepidium lalifolinm. 



Fig. 71. Woodland in the Yenisei valley, as seen I'roni the river, near Bolshui i)urog. 



At Kemchik-hom the mountains hegin to increase in height again, and llie traveller 

 once more gets into one of the spurs of the Sayansk mountains, through which the river 

 breaks. Here the Ulu-kem receives the Kemchik river, a comparatively small trilni- 

 tarj', w ith a very large but rather dry basin. On the banks here I have found, besides 

 the above-mentioned foliferous trees, also Hippophiie rhamnnides, and moreover: 



Beckmannia eniciformis, Solaniun Dulcamara var. persicuiu, and on clifTs above 

 the river Eragrostis minor occur. 



About Kemchik, where the river runs at a great rate through narrow clefts, its 

 main direction is changed from east and west, flowing for the rest of its long course 

 in a northerly direction towards the Arctic Ocean. The surrounding mountains, which 



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