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The Journal of Heredity 



SPIRAEA HYPERICIFOLIA. 



One of the most ornamental wild shrubs of Asiatic Russia, found from the Caucasus region 

 and Persia eastward to Mongolia and the region of Lake Baikal. It is able to stand great 

 heat and drought and is therefore recommended as an ornamental park and garden shrub 

 in the more arid sections of the United vStates. The above photograph was taken on a 

 hillside near Tiflis, Caucasus, Russia, April 24, 1910. (Figure 6.) 



nite cnotiK^h, but I told him I had 

 recei\-cd them so from the acting chief of 

 police in Pendshikent. Well, he let us 

 go on. Half an hour later, however, a 

 messenger came to us, informing us that 

 we had to return, as the administrator 

 did not feel he could let us go on an\' 

 further. The acting chief of police in 

 Pendshikent had made a failure of the 

 d(X-ument that he gave me, having for- 

 gotten to mention the exact date and 

 number of my j^ermission from St. 

 Petersburg and he (the civil adminis- 

 trator), V>eing held responsible for the 

 district I was travelling in, could, under 

 those circumstances, not allow me to go 

 on anv further. 



RETURN NECESS.\RV. 



He said he would allow me to stay 

 there in this village, until a messenger 

 had arrived from Samarkand, as he 

 would investigate this affair; if things 

 were found to be O. K., I could proceed 

 farther on; if not, I would have to 

 return under guard. I had a short con- 

 ference with my men and then told this 

 administrator that as it might take a 

 messenger to and from Samarkand from 

 five to ten or e\'en twel\-e days before I 

 could have been cleared of his suspi- 

 cions, and as my caravan alone cost me 

 from fifteen to twenty roubles a day, 

 I had to decline his oflfer, but wanted to 

 return bv another road to Samarkand 



