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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 Katunja, the Tschuja, the Baschkaris, and TscJmlysch- 

 man, thence by the mouth of the river into the Telezkischen 

 Lake, or Sea. Meyer, in the meantime, ascended the Irtysch, 

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

 mountains of Kurtschen, 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- 

 tinsk, and passed over the mountainous range of Tschingistan, 

 Kent, Ku, and Kar-karala, to the Altyn-tube, and to the 

 sources of the Nura. 



The '■^ Icones 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 known, and either not at 

 all, or very erroneously represented. The drawings, alwaj's 

 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 on 

 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 Altaica 

 above mentioned, which will be published in octavo. This 

 work, in three volumes, will enumerate all the plants found 

 on the Altaic Mountains, and in the Steppes which extend 

 along their southern and western bases, and will contain 

 about 1700 species, arranged according to the Linnaean 



