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The Journal of Heredity 



THE VALUABLE KARAGATCII TREE. 



This dense-headed, desert shade tree ( Ulmns campestris 2imbraciilifera) is found throughout 

 Russian and Chinese Turkestan, although the forms in the two countries are distinct, 

 according to Meyer. The photograph shows a particularly beautiful specimen at Orono, 

 in the province of Samarkand, Russian Turkestan, July 13, 1910. It has been introduced 

 to the United States, and promises to be extremely valuable in the arid Southwest. 

 (Figure 4.) 



supper that night, it being too late to 

 find anything. 



On Saturday, July 9, I went around 

 for several hours in the mountains, 

 collecting seeds and herbarium material 

 and at noon we left with our little cara- 

 van of six horses and six men (inter- 

 preter, guide, three horsemen and my- 

 self). We passed through a wild, moun- 

 tain valley, where a roaring torrent was 

 still eating out its bed deeper and deeper ; 

 after having scaled a dangerous, dry 

 mountain, we arrived at sunset at a 

 beautiful but cold lake at 10,000 feet 

 altitude; this lake is called Kalikulan 

 and is fed from the eternal snows on the 

 mountains around. The water was so 

 cold that one wouldn't readily bathe in 

 it, and as for drinking, one could only 

 take a mouthful at the time. The soil 

 in these high regions is sterile and the 



growing season very short, for the snow 

 melts away in early May and returns 

 again at the beginning of September. 

 Still one finds there masses of Junipers 

 { Juniperus joetidissima), Barberries, 

 bush honeysuckles {Lonicera sp.), yellow 

 roses {Rosa xanthina), a mountain ash 

 (Sorbus thianshanica), besides various 

 herbaceous plants Hke Eremiiriis sp., 

 Gentiana verna, Leonurus (?), several 

 Compositae, etc. We were lucky enough 

 to find at the lake an encampment of a 

 local Sart administrator and slept that 

 night in a tent made of carpets, but still 

 it was cold, after coming in two days 

 from the hot plains. 



SCARCITY OF FOOD. 



On Sunday, July 10. we left our lovely, 

 silent sheet of water and climbed over 

 one high and diniciilt mountain, where 



