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not know whether the alteration of name was my own bad memory, or 
whether I met with the name I used in some book ; but I have in vain 
searched for any such excuse for my mistake. 
have I think generally mentioned the species of grain which are 
cultivated. Wheat and barley are the most prevalent; the former 
both awned and awnless, it is sown in spring; the latter loose-coated 
(Sherokh). Hordeum celeste seems confined to more southern parts. 
In Kashmir rice is the common crop ; but Indian Phaseolee, maize, and 
millet also occur. The species of the latter I cannot venture to name 
at present, but I have preserved specimens, There are only two, one 
a Panicum, one a Pennisetum. With respect to fruit-trees, your question 
is exceedingly difficult to answer. The wallnut is unquestionably wild 
om Kashmir to Kamaon in the Indian Himalaya, and plentiful every- 
where. In Thibet it is certainly only cultivated, but grows up to 
very nearly 11,000 feet. The whole tribe of Rosaceous fruit-trees are 
apparently wild in many parts of Kashmir, not in the valleys only, but 
in the forest along the hill-side ; yet as they are extensively cultivated 
the point must ever remain doubtful. In Thibet, however, though 
I have once or twice seen an apricot and an El@agnus on the river-bank 
far away from any cultivation, the circumstance has occurred so seldom 
that I feel sure it was accidental. The vine, or a nearly allied species, 
is wild in Kashmir as well as in Kishtwar, but I have not yet 
compared my specimens with cultivated ones. 
T. THOMSON. 
The late PROFESSOR ZUCCARINI: From a letter addressed to the Editor 
Dr. WarLrcB, F.R.S., and L.S. 
I have perused with great interest Professor von Martius's Eloge 
over Joseph Gerhard Zuccarini, delivered before the Royal Bavarian 
Academy of Sciences, at Munich, on the 28th of March 1848. Never 
was anything of the sort executed with greater taste and eloquence 
than this tribute of our excellent friend* to deceased goodness and 
* In the Bulletins of the Academy for last year there are likewise, a discourse at its 
eighty-ninth anniversary, solemnized on the 28th March, “and an Eloge over Berzelius, 
on the 28th Nifi by the same author; and I will add, an — interesting 
Eloge on his son-in-law, Professor Michael Pius Erdl, by Dr. von Schubert 
