6 Briga(k'-Siir,Li,eoii J. E. T. Aitchison's Notes on Products 



Ayar-magar. — Tlio tulier.s on llie lihrous roots of 

 Eremostachys labio.sa and other species. This word is no 

 doubt merely a repetition of o'jar, with the consonant thrown 

 in for euphony. 



Agaricus, speciei^. Fungi. 



I^arge FuxGI of several species are traded with in Central 

 Asia under the name f/hari-kun as a specific remedy for 

 several diseases, and as a surgical remedy for stopping 

 bleeding. I collected quantities of Xylopodium Aitchisoni. 

 The usual locality they were found growing on was the 

 mounds of soil erected by white ants (Termites) ; tliese were 

 considered as good for food, but the natives said that they 

 were usually only collected by the dealers in drugs. 



Agriophyllum latifolium, Fhch. et Meij. Chenopodiace.e. 

 Charkho, chlrkho. — This is the plant of the sand-hills of 

 Baluchistan, that used to be seen being rolled across the 

 desert flats, carried by the wind hither and thither, and 

 occasionally met with in sheltered localities drifted into great 

 heaps. It had been called by the mission the " wanderer " 

 before we knew the native name for it, which means the 

 spinner, or the spinning about one. In Persia during 

 autumn Gundelia Tournefoetii was seen being driven about 

 in the same way, but being a much larger plant, was apt to 

 produce by its gyrations a panic amongst cattle. 



Agropyrum cristatum, Boiss. Gramine^. 

 Valuable as a fodder grass. 



AhaJc — i£.i>\ — lime. 



Ahan — ^i>l — dliun, iron. 



Aj — ^1 — a little, a small quantity. 



Ajhdn — an umbelliferous fruit, collected in Afghan- 

 istan and in the jungles of Balkh, employed 

 medicinally, said to be the same as ajwain. 



Ajwain — ^^^.y^\ — the plant Carum copticum, and its 

 fruit. 



Ak — this final syllable made by adding the letter J: — 

 iT — to a Persian word ^ives the diminutive ; as 



