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BOTANY OF BIHAR AND 0RIS8A. 





much space to be dealt with in a Flora. Verj 

 given in the recent excellent Gazetteers publisl 



led hy the ( J 



=S 





NORTHERN TRACT. 







the Sameshwar BU , oi the foothills of 

 laya, but these forest-, -lad mountains, with their wealth of ■ 

 are for the most part beyond the Nepal boundary, and 1 



our Northern ti - unii <-<! 1 i h 1 n_e alluvial plain of t 

 densely populated and < ■!,.- <h 'cultivated. On the north* 

 the Ganges the plain varies from To !io miles in width, nort 





Darbhanga and M u/.a'iarpur 



bolus, will grow on such land. That there i 

 aalophytic flora in these usar lands of Bihar i- 

 washing away of the " reh " or salt effloresce: 



1^ Geologists disti , plain between th 



vium. The older is usually composed of argil] 

 ale reddish-brow ' 

 ferruginous concretions are dis 



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p. Yv. 







