yar.a/pinum, which is very common and characteristic in similar localities. In the 

 following I shall give a summary of the plants I met with at Ust Tara-kem in order to 

 illustrate the composition of the vegetation of these regions. In the larch-forest and on 

 the wood-steppes, the following species of plants, giving their stamp to the scenery, are 

 common: 



Fig. 56. Look-out on swampy land at the Dora Steppe, near the 

 sacred lake Todshi-kul. The declivities in the foreground are grown 

 with Lychnis sibirica, Sedum hybndum, Artemisia sacrorum, Artemisia 

 laciniata, and various grasses; the swamps with Potamogeton natans, 

 Polggonumamphibiam,Batomasumbellatus, Soil pus Tabernaemontani, 

 and various sedges. In the background the Bei-kem is seen. 



Vegetation at 

 Ust Tara-kem, 

 about 880 m. 

 above sea-level. 



Aconilum barbalum, Draba nemorosa, Galium boreale, Galium varum, Scabiosa 

 ochroleuca, Achillea Millefolium, Achillea impatiens, Aster alpinus, Pgrola rotundifolia 

 var. incarnata, Triiicum crislatum, Phleum Boehmeri, Polygonum undulatum var. alpinam, 

 Leontopodium alpinum, Medicago platycaipa, Lathyrus pisiformis, Chamaerhodos erecta, 

 Polentilla fruticosa, Rubus saxatilis, Rosa acicularis, Sedum purpureum, Bupleurum 

 muUinerve, Solidago Virgaurea, Hypochaeiis maculata, Campanula glomeraia, Gentiana 

 Amarella, Bromus inermis, and Brachypodium pinnatum. 



On dry, open steppes and on rocky slopes occur: 



Thalictrum petaloideum, Arabis incarnata, Alyssum lenense, Silene repens, Lychnis 

 sibirica, Sedum hybridum, Gentiana decumbens, Sisymbrium heteromallum. Ephedra 

 vulgaiis. Cotyledon spinosa, Atraphaxis frutescens, Hedysaium polymorphum, Potentilla 

 chrysantha, Potentilla subacaulis, Fragaria collina, Agrimonia pilosa, Peucedanum 

 baicalense, Galatella punctata, Artemisia sacrorum, Aitemisia laciniata, Cirsium acaule, 

 and Dracocephalum nutans. 



On the flood-plains are to be found, besides natural meadows, a more or less 

 dense brush-wood consisting of: 



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