BOTANICAL INFORMATION. 211 
thorities of these remote districts as seemed needful to the 
traveller’s success. 
Seventeen new species of plants are enumerated and des- 
cribed in M. Karéline’s catalogue; Gentiana riparia, Convol- 
vulus elegans, and C. dianthoides, Echinospermum secundum, E. 
affine and E. stylosum, Rochelia ineana, Statice ochrantha and 
S. latissima, Verbascum Candelabrum and V. velutinum, Scro- 
phularia pinnata, Chondrilla Rouillieri, and C. leiosperma, 
Nepeta densiflora, and Anabasis phyllophora. Twenty-three 
other novelties, making forty in all, are only mentioned, not 
efined ; among them Stroganovia sagittata and S. brachyota, 
a new genus, named in honour of the President of th 
Moscow Naturalists’ Society. 
Some of the hardships which a Traveller must encounter 
in: Siberia may be imagined, when we mention that at 
Oulbinsky the snows were so dreadful that M. Karéline 
was obliged to relinquish his plan of wintering there. Horses 
were unable to pass on the roads, and men with snow-skaits 
alone could make their way along the regular Post-track. 
The cattle perished for want of food, for hay could not be pro- 
cured, all the stacks being so covered with snow that the 
very traces of them had disappeared. Some of the roofs 
were overtopped by the snow in the streets, and it was only 
by cutting steps down the sides of the frozen mass that the 
houses could be approached. Were it not customary in 
Siberia to roof over all the court-yards and large enclosures, 
no horses or domestic animals could survive a single winter. 
The hard weather, however, proved of some advantage to M. 
Karéline, in enabling him to capture several rare dirds, which 
the want of food in the fields and among the bushes, had 
driven to take refuge among the haunts of men. 
THE FLOWERS OF THE ANTEDILUVIAN WORLD. 
(The following lively notice of the recent resca sehe. of 
M. Goeppert is extracted from the * Constitutionnel,” a 
French literary journal.) 
