206 BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 
RUSSIA. 
Copy of a Letter from Dr. von FiscuEn, Superintendent of 
the Imperial Garden at St. Petersburg. 
“ I shall begin this botanical letter with mentioning 
Turtchaninoff (the well known naturalist and traveller in the 
north of Russia and Siberia). It is to be feared he has not 
much time now for his and our favourite pursuit, as he 
is appointed, temporarily however, to the government of 
Jenisséisk, of which Kramoiarsk is the principal place. 
He has sent some trifling Memoirs to the Moscow Society of 
Natural History. Our traveller, Schrenk, has thoroughly 
explored, during last year, the Steppe of the Kirghis, 
depending on Russia, where he discovered a good many 
plants, forming a transition from the Flora of Siberia to that 
of the Himalaya Mountains, and on the publication of which, 
Dr. Meyer and myself are now jointly employed. I send 
you herewith a prospectus of the new species, and as soon 
as the description is published, you shall receive a copy. 
The two first sheets are already printed. There will be a 
short Proæmium to these descriptions, written, I am sorry to 
say, in the German language, because I am not sufficiently 
master of French, to render correctly the multitude of geolo- 
gical terms. A brief account of Schrenk's journey is to be 
published in Russian ; its interesting nature will, however, 
soon ensure its translation. You will receive specimens of 
the greater part of his plants on his return from Siberia, 8$ 
he wishes to preside in person over their distribution. 
Dr. Koch, of Jena, has printed in the Linnea, the be- 
ginning of a conspectus of those plants which he detected and 
gathered in Georgia and Armenia. I have not examined it 
attentively, and can form no judgment respecting his new 
species, 
* M. Karéline visited nearly the same tract of country 85 
M. Schrenk. I have seen none of the botanical results of 
this tour, though he must have found many plants. They 
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