Trail Log 1995-1997 - Lamar at Colorado State University

an Oxytropis with a greatly inflated pod.
Allium, wild onion
Polygala, named because it improves the milk of cows.
Rhaponticum uniflorum, a thistle.
Saxifraga bronchialis
Abietnella (Thuidium) abietina
Oxytropis tragacanthoides, a rare and endangered species. I took Elena Kossovich's picture as
she was collecting it.
There are only three bryologists in the region.
(1) Leonid V. Bardunov, her supervisor, is at the Center of Russian Bryology, a professor at Irkutsk
State University. He published a manual in 1961, covering the Altai and Eastern Sajan mountain
area.
(2) Elena Kossovich. She has published a "Unique Objects of Lake Baikal Watershed" book.
Nauka Publisher, Novosibirisk, 1990, in Russian.
The largest moss herbarium from the Ural Mountains to the Pacific is mainly in Irkutsk. She
finished her Ph.D. at Tomsk State University. She did a Ph.D. on Sphagnum, peat mosses.
Back on the ship.
Off again about 1.00 p.m, to visit the "thin cape." A border area between steppe and forest.
Walked to a cabin by a stream.
Minuartia
Agropyron cristatum, a lovely grass
Dracocephalum pinnatum, blue mint
Heraculum dissectum. The Colorado one is H. lanatum.
Equisetum pratensa
Veratrum lobelianum
Trollius asiaticus, like an orange anemone, knee high.
Mnium cuspidatum, in the stream by the cabin.
Brachythecium
Campylium, maybe
Lilium martagon, King's curl lily, often seen.
On return walk, another forest fire, seen in distance.
Back to the boat for a late lunch, 3.30 p.m.
Off again about 5.00, with a visit to the island of Olkhon (70 km x 10 to 15 km), and a fishing village,
Khurzhir. A fish processing factory runs here three months a year. The channel at this point in
Lake Baikal is called the Maloe Mare, or "small sea."
There was a black kite, seen flying about town
We took a tour of the village museum.
A motorcycle with a side car came through the main street off and on, each time carrying five
persons!