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Many of the herbaria here mentioned are private collections, not 
open to consultation except through the courtesy of their owners,—a 
quality of which, happily, there is likely to be no lack where earnest 
scientific work is concerned. 
For ready reference the herbaria are here arranged alphabetically. 
Alstead School of Natural History, ALSTEAD, New HAMP- 
SHIRE. — Two years ago the Alstead School started a collection of 
the plants growing within a radius of fifteen miles from Alstead 
Centre. This tract includes portions of Cheshire and Sullivan 
Counties, New Hampshire, as well as Windham and Windsor Coun- 
ties, Vermont. The specimens which are mostly mounted and organ- 
ized represent chiefly the phaenogams, pteridophytes, and fleshy 
fungi. The herbarium is accessible only during the session of the 
School, which occurs in midsummer. The plants are in charge of 
Messrs. M. L. Fernald and Hollis Webster of Cambridge, Massa- 
chusetts. Most of the flowering plants and ferns are exactly dupli- 
cated in the herbarium of the New England Botanical Club, and 
many of the fungi in the collection of the Boston Mycological Club. 
Ames, Oakes, NorrH Easton, MASSACHUSETTS. — The most 
important part of Mr. Ames’s herbarium consists of the collection of 
orchids of the world which he commenced in 1899, and which now 
numbers about 1300 sheets. He also has a collection of the garden 
hybrids of orchids in which the genus Cypripedium alone includes 
about 4oo sheets containing many very valuable specimens. In 
1893 Mr. Ames began a collection of the plants of North Easton, 
Massachusetts, which has increased to 600 specimens, collected 
chiefly by himself. 
Amherst College, AMHERST, MassacnuusETTS. — The Amherst 
College herbarium contains about 12000 sheets of which some 
2000 sheets represent European species and the remaining 10000 
American; the latter exhibiting chiefly the flowering plants from 
that part of the United States east of the Mississippi River. Dr. 
Edward Hitchcock's collection containing plants of local interest, 
many of which are no longer found growing in the vicinity, is a part 
of this herbarium. This collection is in charge of Professor J. M. 
Tyler. 
Andrews, Luman, SOUTHINGTON, Connecticut. — About fif- 
teen years ago Mr. Andrews commenced his collection of plants and 
