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Plantago gentianoides, the two latter with undivided, broad 
leaves, Saxifraga hirculus, the smooth low creeping Potentilla 
bifurca, and P. hypoleuca, whose leaves are white under- 
neath, the green Anthriscus-like Selinum papyraceum, Gentiana 
prostrata and barbata, Pedicularis cheilanthifolia and uliginosa, 
Scrophularia incisa, Taraxacum bicolor, Erigeron uniflorus, Arte- 
misia rupestris (glabrous), and A. macrocephala (sericeous), Crepis 
multicaulis, Tragopogon sp., Delphinium speciosum with gor- 
geous blue flowers and broad, smooth leaves, the glabrous 
Geranium collinum and the white-hairy Tanacetum tibeticum, 
Ziziphorum clinopodioides var. dasyantha, and finally the an- 
nuals Pleurogyne carinthiaca, glabrous and delicate, Euphrasia 
hirtella, the glabrous yellow-flowering Erysimum sisymbrioides 
and Tauscheria lasiocarpa. Of mosses, Bryum leptoglyphodon 
and B. pamirio-mucronatum were found. 
This is a community for the most part of cespitose hemi- 
eryptophytes. Not a single species has runners. There are 
no chamaephytes, and only 3 therophytic species were ob- 
served. This is moreover a community of mesophytically 
adapted species. The majority are smooth and many have 
broad leaves. It seems most reasonable to compare this close 
vegetation (greensward) with a meadow, which is also cha- 
racterized by mesophilous, cespitose hemicryptophytes. 
Examples: 
1. Bosala, near the Alitshur River, a narrow strip of 
meadow widening out between the windings of the river. 
There is a close, green meadow-vegetation formed largely of 
Carex pseudofoetida and Poa pratensis var. subcoerulea; scat- 
tered in between were Primula sibirica, Pedicularis uliginosa, 
Crepis sp., Polygonum viviparum, Stellaria brachypetala, Ranun- 
culus pulchellus var. pseudo-hirculus, Astragalus brachytropis, 
and Gentiana leucomelaena. 
2. Along the little stream, Su Birgöt, near Bulung Kul. 
A thick green carpet of Trisetum subspicalum var. glabrescens, 
Poa persica var. songorica, Bromus crinitus, Potentilla bifurca, 
Crepis sp., Artemisia macrocephala, Primula sibirica, Tragopogon 
sp., Cerastium trigynum, Selinum papyraceum, Astragalus bra- 
chytropis and tibetanus, Plantago gentianoides, Oxytropis glabra, 
Gentiana barbata. 
