sangiiinolenta. and Cirsium acaule, here and there Caragana arborescens and Vicia 

 coslata: near the bank of the river are sometimes to be found: 



Melilotus albus, Meliloius dentaius, Potentilla anserina, Convolvulus arvensis. 

 Mgricaria davurica, and Asparagus Pallasi nov. now. 



In places where the saUferous soil has stamped the scenery, are to be found such 



plants as: 



Oxgtropis glabra, Statice Gmelini, Plantago Comuti, Plantago marilima subspec. 

 ciliata nov. subspec, Salicornia herbacea, and Lepidium latifolium. 



Fig. 71. Woodland in the Yenisei valley, as seen from the river, near Bolshoi porog. 



At Kemchik-bom the mountains begin to increase in height again, and the traveller 

 once more gets into one of the spurs of the Sayansk mountains, through which the river 

 breaks. Here the Ulu-kem receives the Kemchik river, a comparatively small tribu- 

 tary, with a very large but rather dry basin. On the banks here I have found, besides 

 the above-mentioned foliferous trees, also Hippopbde rhamnoides, and moreover: 



Beckmannia eruciformis, Solanum Dulcamara var. persicum, and on cliffs above 

 the river Eragrostis minor occur. 



About Kemchik, where the river runs at a great rate through narrow clefts, its 

 main direction is changed from east and west, flowing for the rest of its long course 

 in a northerly direction towards the Arctic Ocean. The surrounding mountains, which 



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