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929. Bupleurum sp. 



A very abundant, creeping, close-growing plant amongst stones 

 at 12,000 to 14,000 feet, Sikaram ; August. 



663, Apium graveolens, L. 



Yerj common at about 7000 feet, along banks of watercourses 

 and at spring-beads on rocks, Sbalizan ; June. 



417. Conopodium sp. 

 Sbalizan ; June. 



513. Carum Bulbocastanum, Koch ( = Stocks, 1056). 



Profuse, Biankbel, under bushes at from 2000 to 3000 feet ; 

 June. Tbis plant also occurs in large quantity in the Rawul 

 Pindee district of tbe Punjab. 



478. C. Bulbocastanum, Koch, var. 



Zabardastkalla, in fields, profuse; June. Wild pigs cause 

 great injury in fields wbere this and tbe last species are prevalent 

 as weeds by uprooting tbe tubers. 



296, 248. C. copticum, JBenth. 



Cultivated more or less in small patches of garden ground, 

 mixed up with several other vegetables. Very common, either as 

 an escape or spontaneously, from Thai to Alikhel ; May and June. 



895, 991. Pimpinella diversifolia, DC. 



Pewarkotal and Shendtoi at an altitude of 8500 feet, profuse 

 under trees ; July and August. 

 752. P. sp. ? 



Shendtoi, in dry stony spots ; July. 

 846. P. sp. 



Drekalla, very rare in certain localities amongst the broken 

 debris of stones ; July. 

 772. Chaerophyllum reflexum, Lindl. 



Shendtoi, profuse in grassy wet ground associated with Pedi- 

 cularis, Primula, Galtha, &c, at 9000 feet ; July. 



592. Scandix Pecten- Veneris, L. 



Fields, not common, Karchatal ; June. 



873. Seseli sibiricum, Benth. 



Very common and prominent on large rocks, Alikhel and 

 Sergal; August. 



514. Conium maculatum, L. 



Biankhel only, round the village ; June. This plant had not 

 previously been collected so far east. 



