GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION. 



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the Kushk Valley as a great rolling prairie of grasses and flowers. The natives 



also attest the accuracy of the Doctor's words as to the flowers, for they say as 

 soon as the cold weather is over, the ground becomes covered over with masses 

 of them. The Crocuses are already beginning to appear." In a second letter 

 from Bala Murghab, dated February ist. which appeared in the Daily New, of 

 March the 19th., 1885, it is again stated that "Crocuses were coming plentifully 

 in flower." 



The district referred to is situated in about Latitude 3 6 ; North, and Longitude 

 63° Last, or about io c East of the most south eastern point where Crocuses have 

 heretofore been known to occur. 



