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dead leaves, but often with beautiful blossoms. There are none 
of the poor procumbent plant-tufts so common in Pamir. 
Examples: 
1. Jaman Tal; a flat valley-bottom filled with large 
stones and sheltered by perpendicular walls‘). Here were 
Salix oxycarpa 4—5 métres tall, and Myricaria squamosa 
1 métre in height. We found, too, Scrophularia incisa, Glaux 
maritima, Calamagrostis compressa, Poa compacta, Elymus sibi- 
ricus, Potentilla dealbata. 
2. Bos-tjilgä, a little tributary of Kara Su. Stony 
river-bed with the following species: Potentilla Salessowii, 
20—40 cm tall, Clematis orientalis var. tangutica, Swertia mar- 
ginata, Lappula sp., Parnassia subacaulis, Carex macrogyna, 
(tufts 60 cm, in diameter at the root,) Kobresia Royleana, 
Calamagrostis compacta, Poa compressa, Elymus sibiricus. These 
were common; less common were Potentilla dealbata, Dra- 
cocephalum heterophyllum, Myricaria squamosa, Crepis tenuifolia, : 
and flexuosa, Trigonella Emodi, Gypsophila cephalotes, Ligularia 
altaica, Scutellaria filicaulis, Astragalus nivalis, Tanacetum tibe- 
ticum, Allium odorum. 
E. The River-banks Formation. 
Along the banks of rivers and lakes, when no marshes 
are present, there is a stripe of close vegetation on firm, 
moist ground. This is sometimes accompanied by bushes 
which grow at the edge of the water: Myricaria, Salix repens 
var. rosmarinifolia and a larger species, (S. glauca?), Tamarix 
sp., Lonicera coerulea. The willows never grow higher than 
2 mètres, the tamarisks, and Lonicera about 1/2 métre. The 
vegetation is of a meadow-like character. Grasses and cype- 
raceae play an important part. The following were observed: 
Trisetum subspicatum, Carex orbicularis and gracilis, Festuca 
rubra (var.), Bromus crinitus, Kobresia Royleana, and Bellardi, 
Poa attenuata var. versicolor, P. persica var. soongoria, — all 
cespitose. Among these, many other plants were scattered: 
Astragalus brachytropis, Beketowii, and tibetanus, Oxytropis 
glabra, all long-stalked richly foliate cespitose plants, Cerastium 
trigynum, Stellaria brachypetala, Gymnandra Korolkowii, and 
*) Pictured by Mme FEDTSCHENKO in “Flore du Pamir” tab. 5. 
