Erg.) = 
covers the ground here in many places with its fine fresh 
green acicular foliage and its many white flowers whose odour 
is plainly detected. There is a profusion of Astragalus ala- 
favicus, multipinnate and green-leafed and mostly without 
blossoms. Astragalus Alitshuri, Stipa orientalis, Psychrogeton 
turcestanicum, Trachydium sp. are common species, and Festuca 
ovina var. valesiaca, Parrya nudicaulis, (lo vines hanging 
down a steep slope), Nepeta kokanica, Macrotomia euchromon, 
Cousinia rava, Crepis flexuosa, Kochia prostrata, (in places very 
abundant.), Artemisia (maritima aff.) Veronica Hjuleri, Sisym- 
brium heteromallum, Bromus crinitus, Ligusticum alpinum, Gera- 
nium collinum, are likewise found. ÆEurotia is scarce, but on 
a few slopes exposed to the west or south, that and Stipa 
orientalis are the only plants found. Acantholimon diapensioides, 
one of the most common of the plants of Pamir, is lacking 
here, but the spinous A. alatavicum is common. The lovely 
red-flowered Pedicularis pulchra grows in small, dampish de- 
pressions. 
Of the last four examples named, — to which many 
others could have been added, — the first three show a strik- 
ing resemblance to the vegetation on the horizontal flats, 
(Trigonella-formation); their species are almost all indigenous 
to these, which is likewise true of the species characteristic 
for slopes with a southern exposure. 
The last named species, and especially Eurotia ceraloides, 
are characteristic both for the short slopes of clefts and 
similar places, and for the long mountain declivities exposed 
to the south, which the strong insolation quickly rids of the 
dampness coming down from the summits of the mountains. 
This is not the case with the species, which from hori- 
zontal flats creep up the slopes with a northern exposure, 
and to which reference was made above. These species seem 
to be the characteristic for the short slopes of clefts etc. or 
for the base of the mountains, whereas, on the long main 
slopes of the mountains exposed to the north, which are 
shady and watered from above, they resign in favour of com- 
munities of other mesophytic plants, (Poa attenuata- 
formation). 
The last of the examples given (4), the one from the 
