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tilla sp., Taraxacum sp. Along the Kurshab River I found 
Kobresia Royleana, Scirpus pauciflorus and compressus, Triglo- 
chin palustre, Gentiana leucomelaena, Taphrospermum altaicum, 
Lappula tenuis, Euphrasia Regelii and Funaria microstoma 
growing, and in the water, Ranunculus natans with floating 
leaves and Bryum Schleicheri were swimming. 
However conditions changed as soon as we began to 
Fig. 1. Forest of Juniperus pseudosabina on Olgin Lug, cowering a slope 
below a steep rock. Drawing after a photograph. 
climb up the mountains. We found ourselves at once in 
woods of juniper, Juniperus pseudosabina. This species 
extended from the plain all the way up to the summits of 
the adjacent mountains, to an altitude of about 3,300 metres 
above sea level. At this height, though, the junipers were 
but bushes at most 2 mètres tall, far too scattered to be 
considered a wood. Below on the other hand, the junipers 
formed, as I have said, a wood. The trees attained 10—12 
mètres in height, and many had mighty trunks; a single one 
which we measured had three trunks, the largest, a mètre 
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