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round Bharawul to some extent. Alliaria is very common ; also 

 Tulipa. In this variety the dehiscence of the anthers continues until, 

 from a single simple pore, a line reaching nearly the whole length 

 of the anther is formed : a very pretty and sweet smelling Anemone 

 common, Viola, Rumex, Thalictrum a rather fine species, Hedera, 

 Rubia cordifolia, Valeriana, Corydalis, Fragaria, Thlaspidea, Sambucus, 

 Ebulus adonis, Berberis, Equisetum, Clematis, Urtica urens, were 

 noticed, either in cultivation or on the edge of the clearings. Poor 

 as the flora is, I see no chance of its promising much variety, for I 

 observe few other plants showing themselves : several ferns were 

 met with in moist places, and under rocks, two Asplenia, one un- 

 determined ; Aspidioides very common in some places, but of last 

 year. 



The soil is deepish and good, when wet it is subtenacious. The 

 Nukhtur is a large tree, seventy to eighty feet high ; one of an average 

 size measured fourteen feet in girth, four feet from the base. The 

 slopes of the mountain are steep, and the ravines very rocky : on the 

 ridges between these, the ground is covered with soil. Colchicum 

 observed as high as 7,500 feet. I returned another way, keeping 

 along the large ravine that drains the mountain to the north, and 

 which falls into the Otipore river, below Shinegam. 



Buddlea was noticed at 5,800 feet, Hyacinthus throughout from 

 this to Bharawul, Nurgiss 5,800, feet Impatiens the same as the 

 species below 5,000, Myrsinea ditto, Fraxinus is very common about 

 4,000 feet, it is very easily mistaken for the Xanthoxylon, which 

 appears common over most parts of Khorassan. The range of the 

 Cytisus, which is a beautiful sweet smelling shrub, is extensive, it 

 may be included here between 3,000 and 7,000 feet : associated 

 with it between 4,000 to 4,500 feet is a Caragana, and about this 

 occurs a fine Salveoideo-Dracocephalum. 



The limit of the Baloot may be taken at 4,000 feet, but in shel- 

 tered ravines it descends lower. 



Euonymus Moamunna, Periplocea, scarcely extend above 4,000 feet, 

 neither do the spirescent Astragali, these are succeeded by two or 

 three espinous species, one the same as the Astragalus stipulis 

 magnis of the river towards Pironi. Amygdalus ranges between 

 3,500 and 7,000 feet, the pretty Cerasus does not extend above 

 4,000 feet. There appears to be another Amygdalus above. 



The chief vegetation of the mountain below 6,000 feet appears to 

 be a tufted coarse Andropogoneous grass, and in such situations as this 



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