INTRODUCTORY ESSAY, 



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15,000 feet is of course far from complete; those with an as- 

 terisk (*) have been observed above 17,000 feet. 



Corydalis Tibetica. 

 *Draba aizoides and others 



# Parry a. 

 # Cerastium. 



*Ly chnis . 

 # Thylacospermum. 



*Myricaria. 



# Biebersteinia odora. 



Oxytropis chiliopkglla. 



* Astragali, several. 



# Aster alpinus. 



Thermopsis. 

 Potentilla Salessovii. 



# 



» 



j? 



ansenna, 

 Meyeri. 



*Sibbaldia procwnbens, var 

 Chamserhodos sabulosa. 



a ccrniia. 



•Bed* 



♦Saussure®, three species. 



# Artemisia. 

 # Leontopodium. 



# Allardia. 

 # Py ret brum. 



Ligularia. 

 # Nepeta multibracteata. 



Cynoglossum. 



Lithospermum cucliromon . 

 # Gymnandra. 

 # Primula. 



Bheum. 



f 



Ephedra. 



*Carices. 

 Stipa. 



# Lloydia serotina. 

 # Festuca ovina, and other 

 Grasses. 



# 



Owing to the aridity of the climate all Cry ptog amice arc 



four 



scarce 



crustaceous 



Lichens, on stones, and half-a-dozen Fungi, including several 

 British species, have been collected. 



Western 



It 



was first explored by Dr. Falconer, who visited Hasora, Dras, 

 and Balti, and made a fine Herbarium, which is unfortunately 

 still unexamined and undistributed, at the India House. 

 Jacquemont visited Piti in 1830, and Dr. Royle's collec- 

 tors were there also. Dr. Thomson's collections were made 

 in Piti, Balti, Rupchu, Ladak, Zanskar, Nubra, and Dras. 



* There are a few plants in the Wallichian Herbarium, collected by Moor- 

 croft, the first explorer in modern times of Ladak, and ticketed as from that 

 place, but they arc mostly outer Himalayan plants. 



