588 The Turaee and Outer Mountains of Kumaoon. [June, 



mountains, and how many novelties may exist in the uncounted glens 

 never yet traversed by the European ; the native collector is satisfied 

 by saying (with Sheridan) he has been there. The Rubia nervosa 

 would probably succeed in any of the hilly countries, if not in the 

 plains of India. 



From the Glaciers of Pindree and Kuphinee Messrs. Strachey 

 brought me in May, 1847, a plant called "Roogee," the large tap-root 

 of which is eaten by the mountaineers : it has a slight flavour of Horse- 

 radish ; it speedily perished at Almorah, but from the best examination 

 afforded by very young and imperfect flower buds, it seemed to be a 

 new species of Actsea. The same gentlemen also brought me from 

 those sites abundant specimens of Primula petiolaris, nana, and another 

 with the habit of P. denticulata, which I have also had from the Milum 

 glacier, and which Mr. Edgeworth thinks new, and proposes to call P. 

 densiflora : (Primula treviscapa N. S. Edgeworth from near Sooring) : 

 also a new and pretty purple Corydalis, two new Saxifrages, and Trol- 

 lius pumilus. Gagea elegans is a common plant near Pindree. From 

 specimens found in seed only, I have good reason to suppose that 

 Trollius europseus grows between Rasrung and the cascades, on the 

 south face of the Roopin pass, and would be found there in flower by 

 any visiter in May and June.* 



* Some of the plants collected towards Pindree in 1846, having had, in common with 

 most of those enumerated in this paper, the advantage of Mr. Edgeworth's examination, 

 I am enabled to state that the creeping Raspberry of p. 246, No. 176, J. A. S. is Rubus 

 nutans. Wahlenbergia of Wachum, p. 247, is W. viridis : a specimen from a weak strug- 

 gling shrub near Dooglee, not alluded to in the Journal, is probably Panax pseudo-gin- 

 seng, another approximation of the local botany to that of Gosainsthan. In an earlier 

 paper on the Shatool and Roopin passes (p. 16.) I have named the " Kusbul," Saussu- 

 rea gossypina ; but have now every reason to believe it is Mr. Edgeworth's N. S. Saus- 

 surea sacra. A slip in the nomenclature of the Compositae is pardonable : most of these 

 have as many names as a Spanish grandee. 



Several grievous errors of punctuation having disfigured the narrative in No. 176, the 

 following alterations are very necessary to the sense. 

 P. 231, 1. 30. For " also found," read " not found." 



246, 1. 2. Insert a period after " plains," and comma after Kalaputthur. 

 „ last line but one. Insert period after S. E. and dele it after Khathee. 

 256, for 1807 read 1847. 



260, 1. 22. Dele the commas after " Dooglee," and " Diwalee," and insert one 

 after " hour." 



„ 2. From bottom. Put the semicolon after " Nynee Tal, &c." and dele it 

 alter " 3 P. M." 



