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2 OBSERVATIONS
3 VEGETATION AND PRODUCTS OP AFGHANISTAN,
4 B ISHMIB \M» TIBET.
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8 The plants collected l>\ Mi. Vigne in Kashmir,
9 Astore, and [skardo, in Little Tibet, and placed in my
10 hands, amount to nearly ninety species. The majo-
11 rity, from imperfecl drying in the first instance, or
12 from subsequent injury, are in too imperfect a state
13 to allow of any accurate description of new, or even
14 of the identification of old species. But having many
15 of the same plants in my own herbarium, from the
16 Himalayan mountains and Kashmir and from Kuna-
17 wur, which may be considered a part of Tibet, I
18 have been able to identity several of the species,
19 and most of the genera, even when in a much decaved
20 state. In recent times, parts of the above countries
21 have been visited by different botanists, and our
22 knowledge respecting their climate and natural
23 history, at present imperfect, will become both definite