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and Persepolis and collected in the Widespread plateau there, on the salt sea Nemek- 
Derja and on the mountains Kuhbarfi (whose peak according to spproximate estimate is 
7000' above the Persian gulf) Kuh-Ajub (6000'), Sabst-Buschom (7700!) a great mass of 
interesting plants. Düring June he collected at the village Deremgun and on the near 
lying, 8100! high estimated mountain Kuh-Delu. The months July and August Mr. Kotschy 
finally devoted to investigating the mountain Kuh-Daena, lying north-westerly of Schivas, 
and he especially and carefully exploited the gigher regions still partly covered with 
snow in August, with the nearby summits Kosche-Syrch and Posan-Pir. 
*%) I take the liberty to remark here that through a misunderstanding in the 
Flora 1845 p. 608 printed notice, instead of Yuan-mountains: Snow mountains are men- 
tioned. 
The highest peak of the mountain on which still two varieties (Polygonum 
radicosum Boiss and Didymophysa Aucheri Boiss) grow, Mr. Kotchy estimates is 11,000’ 
high. Therefor we are indebted to the diligence of this zealous botanist for the 
compilation of this collection of plant-forms of all higher regions of southern Persia. 
A card of the travelled regions and height-profiles according to the travellers 
designs and descriptions of the habitat of the most interesting plant forms, which is 
included with each collection and will be sent subsequently for those already forwarded, 
will serve to make these relationships more clear. 
The deserving worker of the eastern flora, Mr. Boissier in Geneva, had the 
goodness to determine the principal mass of these plants. 
The new varieties will be described in Nos. 6 and 7 of the Diagnosis pl. soon 
to be published. Dr. Fenzl had the goodness to examine the caryophyllaceae, the mosses 
--of which moreover only one was suitable for all collections — Dr. P.W. Schimper, and 
the sea weeds the two Mr. Endlicher and Mr. Diesing (s.v. Mohl and v. Schlechtendal bot. 
Zeitung 1845 p. 268). 
