Festuca rubra L.

USSR.
(Region of LAKE BAIKAL)
FESTUCA RUBRA L.
form with erect inflorescences
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a)	Sunny, arid, SE-facing steep slope of
bare windblown dune sands, gravel, scree
fields, and rock outcrops of decomposing
"granite’,' with bare soil steppe and "desert"
vegetation of Oxytropis (coeruleus?),
Festuca, Carex monosperma, Phloj odicarpus
popovii, Alyssum obovatum, Chamaerhodos
grandiflora, Ephedra, Scrophularia incisa,
Thymus serpyllum, Orostachys spinosa,
Polygonatum officinale, Rhaponticum uniflorum.
b)	Open, sandy Pinus sylvestris forest on
top of dune and scree slopes, with dense
Rhododendron dahuricum, Alnus fruticosa,
Lilium martagon, Cotoneaster lucidus,
Linnaea borealis, Sorbus sibiricus under-
story, 10-15 m above Lake Baikal at
"Academic Bay."
Inner beaches and sandy bank of "Bukhta
Babushka" ("Grandmother's Bay"), 0-1 m
above lake levelj just NE of "Academic
Bay," with Isatis oblongata, Festuca
rubra, Stellaria dichotoma, Agropyron,
Carex kirilovii, Papaver nudicaule.
BUKHTA PESCHANAYA ("Sandy Bay")—a vacation
settlement—on LAKE BAIKAL, at the base of
the Primorskii Range, ca. 90 km NE of mouth
of Angara River.
52°22'N, 105°50'E
Alt. ca. 450-550m
(1480-1800’)
(Note: This area is a designated "zakaznik,"
i.e., a nature reserve where limited economic
use is allowed provided it is carefully
controlled and is not injurious to its
special scientific features.)
H.	H. Iltis
J.	C. Coffey
M. F. Denton
I.	M. Krasnoborov
28 June 1979
No. 7?
4th field expedition conducted to the U.S.S.R. under the USA/IKSr
Cooperative Agreement in the Protection of the Environment Proiert
VI.I - Protection of Native Species of Flora. Sponsored bv the Carv
Arboretum of the New York Botanical Garden
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