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chum with long crooked stems clambering between the stones, 
while growing sporadically on the lower part of the talus was 
a large quantity of Chamaenerium angustifolium, and single 
low bushes of Hippophaës rhamnoides. 
At the western end of Jashil Kul the talus vegetation 
was strikingly abundant; particularly on slopes with an east- 
ern exposure. The illustration fig. 26 shows this. It is so 
unusually rich for conditions in Pamir that M™ OLGA FEDT- 
SCHENKO has omitted the western end of Jashil Kul from “the 
true Pamir” (Flore du Pamir, map) On the slope with an 
eastern exposure the vegetation is most abundant, but there 
is no qualitative difference of importance between that and 
the vegetation on the neighbouring talus slope with a southern 
exposure. Polygonum alpinum, Chamaenerium and Hippophaës 
are found only on the western part of the lake (on both 
shores), I have in fact never found them in any other places 
in High Pamir. M" FEDTSCHENKO does not mention them 
from Pamir. Later on, I found Polygonum and Hippophaés 
in Goran, in the valley of the river Pandsh, and it is reason- 
able to surmise that they have migrated from the west to- 
ward the east along the Gund river, and have not yet come 
further in their journeyings. However there is no information 
at hand at present as to whether they are to be found in 
the valley of the Gund. It is possible that they are only to 
be found at the western end of Jashil Kul, because only 
there are conditions sufficiently favourable, — the place is com- 
paratively warm and sheltered. Yet Polygonum was so luxu- 
riant and abundant in its growth that it did not appear to 
be at its extreme boundaries. This might be true of Hippo- 
phaés. The latter has juicy fruit and might have been trans- 
ported by birds; the former has rather heavy nuts. 
