The vegetation occurring in thickets and meadows also partly consists of plants 

 which are characteristic of drier tracts. The following have been recorded by me as the 

 most usual: 



Fig. 53. Look-out on the wood-steppe on the Upper Bei-kem, near 

 Ust Tara-kem. Scattered trees of larch, birch, and also some stragg- 

 ling spruces. The forest-ground is light and open, here and there 

 with rather small and dry natural meadows. 



Sanguisorba officinalis. Campanula rotundifolia, Thalictrum minus, Rumex arifolius, 

 Cypripedilum macranihon. Sisymbrium Sophia, Erysimum hieracii folium. Ranunculus 

 acris, Alchemilla vulgaris, Hypochaeris maculata, Genliana detonsa, Plantago media, 

 Equisetum arvense, Alopecurus pratensis, Avena pubescens, Elymus sibiricus, Trifolium 

 Lupinaster, Rosa acicularis, Galium boreale, Senecio nemorensis var. macer, Inula 

 britannica, Polemonium coeruleum, Cerastium pilosum, Hypericum peiforatum, Hypericum 

 hirsulum. Geranium sibiricum, Geum Aleppicum, Rubus idaeus, Lilium Martagon, Rubus 

 humulifolius, Epilobium angustifolium, Erigeron acer, Tanacetum vulgare, Artemisia 

 vulgaris, Cacalia hastaia, Cirsium serraluloides, Chelidonium majus var. granaiflorum, 

 Bupleurum multinerve, Hieracium umbellatum, Pedicularis euphrasioides, Leonurus 

 tataricus, Cypripedilum guttatum, Polygonaium officinale, Luzula campestiis, Mulgedium 

 azureum, Vicia amoena, Urtica dioica, Rumex crispus, Tiientalis europaea, Linnaea 

 borealis, Vuccinium Myrtillus, Vaccinium vitis idaea, Pyiola rotundifolia var. incamata, 

 Pyrola secunda, Goodyera repens, Lycopodium clavatum, Lycopodium complanatum, 

 Equisetum silvaticum, Athyrium crenatum, Polypodium vulgare, and in slightly moister 

 places, in grass-grown, partly irrigated fields, in bogs and on hanks, etc. are to be found: 



Calamagroslis neglecta, Calamagrostis Langsdorffii, Archangelica decurrens, 

 Heracleum dissectum, Pleurospermum austriacum, Betula humilis, Vaccinium uliginosum 



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