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Lindley), the seed of which is brought down by the northern merchants, and sold in the 
bazars of Northern India under the name of ()J\.\b3 fiturusaliyoon, to which in the 
Persian works on Materia Medica, is attached a translation of the description of Petro- 
selinum, mergorcduvoy of Dioscorides, lib. il. c. 77. 
The fruit-trees and cultivated grains of Kunawur having been enumerated, with their 
localities, it is only necessary here to mention, that the former belong to the genera 
Pyrus, Persica, Armeniaca, and Vitis, and the latter to Triticum, Hordeum, Polygonum, 
while Juglans, Corylus, and Pinus Gerardiana, afford edible nuts; the other species of 
the latter genus are P. Deodara and Webbiana; Juniperus excelsa and recurva with 
Cupressus torulosa and Ephedra Gerardiana, forming the other Conifere ; species of 
Quercus, Acer, Betula, Populus, Saliv, Fravinus, and Pavia, the remaining trees. The 
shrubs consist of species of Eleagnus, Rhododendron, Lonicera, Berberis, Capparis, 
Crategus, Rosa, Ribes, and Rubus ; with, of Leguminosae, Colutea, Caragana, Genista, 
and Astragalus: G. Versicolor, and A. Moorcroftianus, spinosissimus, Webbianus and 
Gerardianus, forming the different kinds of Tartaric furze so frequently mentioned by 
travellers. The remaining Leguminose belong to the genera Medicago, Lotus, Vicia, 
and Orobus. The other herbaceous families and genera are, of Ranunculacee, Thalic- 
trum, Anemone, Isopyrum, Adonis, Ranunculus, Aquilegia, Aconitum ; of Crucifere, 
Cardamine, Arabis, Dentaria, Draba, Hesperis, Sisymbrium, Erysimum, Tauscheria, 
Crambe ; of Caryophyllee, Gypsophila, Dianthus, Silene, Arenaria, Stellaria, Cerastium; 
of Umbellifere, Ptychotis, Bupleurum, Heracleum, Cuminum, Thapsia, Cherophyllum, 
Myrrhis, Hymenolena; of Composite, Saussurea, Serratula, Lappa, Cirsium, Carduus, 
Eriocoryne, Diplurandra, Scorzonera, Crepis, Mulgedium, Lactuca, Ganaphalium, 
Aster, Erigeron, Tanacetum, Artemisia, Tussilago ; of Boraginee, Onosma, Moltkia, 
Anchusa, Cynoglossum, Echium, Lithospermum; of Scrophularinee, Veronica, Scrophu- 
laria, Euphrasia, Pedicularis ; of Labiate, Salvia, Scutellaria, Marmoritis, Dracocephalum, 
Erianthera, Leonurus, Phiomis ; of Primulacee, Lysimachia, Androsace, Primula; of 
Chenopodee, Chenopodium, Blitum, Salsola; of Polygonee, Rumer, Rheum, Polygonum, 
Oxyria.. The other genera, generally only single ones of other families are, Corydalis, 
Viola, Polygala, Linum, Malva, Vitis, Impatiens, Potentilla, Epilobium, Circea, 
Myricaria, Illecebrum, Herniaria, Sedum, Savifraga, Chrysosplenium, Galium, Rubia, 
Valeriana, Scabiosa, Macrostemma, a new genus of Asclepiadee, Gentiana, Atropa, 
Orobanche, Euphorbia. The monocotyledons consist of Iris, Alisma, Allium, Gagea, 
Convallaria, Juncus, the Orchidee of Epipactis and Gymnadenia, and the grasses of 
species of Phleuwm, Pennisetum, Poa, Festuca, Bromus, Brachypodium, Melica, Hordeum, 
Alopecurus. Among the ferns is the only Acrostichum in my collection, and a few 
ete of Pteris, Osmunda, and a Lycopodium. 
The most cursory comparison of this enumeration with the list of genera and species 
given in Ledebour’s Fora Altaica, will show the great analogy which exists between the 
Flora of those mountains and of the south of Siberia with that of Tibet, or of the northern 
face of the Himalayan mountains, which, consisting entirely of the elevated land included 
between 
