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eastern chain of the Altai were explored by Biinge, who 

 passed a considerable length of time in the districts of the 

 lower Katiinja^ the Tsclmja^ the BaschkanSy and Tschulysch- 

 man^ thence by the mouth of the river into the TelezMscJien 

 Lake^ or Sea. Meyer, in the meantime, ascended the Irtyschy 

 as far as Noor-Saisan^ by which means he visited the eastern 

 mountains oi Kurtscken^ situated in the Chinese Empire, as 

 well as the Dolen-kara and Ackaul ; thence, crossing it in a 

 westerly direction, he passed through Somgoripsa^ Kirgisen 

 steppe^ particularly the territories of Ahlaikit and Semipala- 

 tinsky and passed over the mountainous range of Tschingistan^ 

 Kenty Ku^ and Kar-karala^ to the Altyn-tuhe^ and to the 

 sources of the Nura. 



The ^^ Jcones Plantarum'' will be published at Munich, 

 and will comprise 500 plates in folio, executed in lithography 

 by Seb. Minsinger. It will appear in 10 parts, each of 50 

 leaves, two of which parts will form a volume. The figures 

 will chiefly represent new plants, discovered in the Altaic 

 mountains and their environs. But a few other species of 

 the Russian Asiatic Flora will also be admitted, which, if 

 they have not altogether escaped the notice of former travel- 

 lers, have as yet been imperfectly know^n, and either not at 

 all, or very erroneously represented. The drawings, always 

 made under the immediate inspection of the author, all from 

 perfect and mostly living specimens, exhibit the plants of the 

 natural size; and every where, when necessary, are added 

 accurate and more or less magnified analyses of the parts of 

 fructification. The text, given in Latin, will appear 



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beautiful vellum paper, and of the same size as the plates, 

 and will be confined to the names, diagnoses, mention of the 

 country, duration, and time of flowering of the plant, char- 

 acters of the new genera, and explanations of the plates- 

 The more full descriptions will appear in the Flora AUa^*^^ 

 above mentioned, which will be published in octavo. Thi5 

 work, in three volumes, will enumerate all the plants foun^ 

 on the Altaic Mountains, and in the Steppes which extena 

 along their southern and western bases, and will contain 

 about ItOO species, arranged according to the Linnsean 



