Below you will find scanned in images of pressed specimens of plants gathered by amateurs in the 1880s and 1890s from Kashmir to the source of the Ganges 'Silver Fern' (CHEILANTHES FARINOSA Syn. C.BICOLOR) collected in Kashmir in 1898 - a low level Silver Fern with the lower surfaces of the fronds a beautiful white is found from Hazara to Burma (now Myanamar) @ 700-1200m GENTIANA TIANSHANICA - Kashmir 1898 A climbing fern -? LYGODIUM SP. from Ganges Valley in 1892 GENTIANA STIPITATA - pale blue flowers with dark stripes; near source of Ganges, 1892 Fern from Martund Temple, near Gangabal, Kashmir, 1898 Anemones found at Shimla in 1897 - are these just cultivars? 'Maiden-hair fern' (ADIANTUM SP.) Ganges Valley, 1898 SWERTIA SP. (a member of Gentian family), Tragbal, Kashmir, 1898 'Kashmir Bell-flower' (CAMPANULA ?CASHMIRIANA) Kashmir 1898 'Larkspur' (DELPHINIUM SP.) - Kashmir, 1898 'KASHMIR ROCK-JASMINE' (ANDROSACE ROTUNDIFOLIA) - Kashmir, 1898 CODONOPSIS SP. pale blue stripped on pass between Lidder and Sind Vallet, Kashmir, 1899 - EITHER C.OVATA or C.OBTUSA; need to check the differences A white rose (ROSA SP.) on pass between Lidder and Sind Valley, Kashmir, 1899 CYANANTHUS SP. - Ganges Valley, 1892 |