bd = 
speaks of ‘‘mountain-steppe” or “alpine steppe” on the moun- 
tains of High Asia, as “a type of fell-field that approximates 
to steppe in many respects’ he places the vegetation between 
fell-field and steppe, but gives it the latter name. What War- 
MING here calls “steppe”, is, what I call!) semi-desert, and, 
as has been said before, if plant communities are to be 
Table 3. 
Number Percentage of species 
of under each growth-form 
species Fr ch|H G FE ri 
East Greenland. Fell-field'........ 72 25 | 74 1 | 
ae Bell-tield 22... 3.14... 36 | 56 | 4 4 
South-Greenland. Fell-field® ...... 36 |56 | 3 
Iceland. EKelr-field*:..».....2....: 71 31 | 65 | 1 3 
Bernina. “Schuttflur’® (ab. 3000 m.) 23 | 71 | 3 3 
Hersonella- Formation. ..... ........... 2. | 29 57.1.2 12 
TP IR 5 | 41 
ot 
to 
ikranscaspian lowlands® : -:...:.... 768 11 | 7 
1 N. Hartz. ” Porsitp. ° ROSENVINGE. * JØNSSON, STEFANSSON, 
OSTENFELD. ° RÜBEL. ° PAULSEN. 
named according to their growth-forms, it is hardly permis- 
sible to give the Trigonella-formation the name of desert. 
However, as the most important forms are hemicryptophytes 
and chamaephytes, there seems to be nothing to prevent 
placing it under the category of fell-fields. In the Table 3 
given here the biological spectrum”), (after RAUNKIAER), of the 
!) See PAULSEN, 1912. 
”) The species-list given above, for the Mardjanaj-plain, + following 
species from other similar localities: Ch: Astragalus Muschketowii, Cicer pun- 
gens, Sympegma Regelii, Kochia prostrata (?). H: Psychrogeton turcestanicum, 
Arnebia guttata, Oxytropis tibetica and humifusa, Christolea crassifolia, Zygo- 
phyllum fabago, Poa attenuta, Hordeum secalinum, Sisymbrium Korolkowii, 
Crepis glauca, Calamagrostis compacta. Gi: Linaria sp. Th: Astragalus 
ophiocarpus, Veronica biloba. 
