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THE HERBARIA OF NEW ENGLAND. 
Mary A. Dav. 
(Continued from page 208). 
Collins, James Franklin, PRovipENcE, RHODE IsLAND. — Mr. 
Collins’ herbarium, which is chiefly local, was commenced in 1884 
and contains about 4700 mounted specimens, including nearly 2000 
species of the flowering plants and ferns, and 1600 mosses ; also 
about 2300 unmounted and mostly unnamed mosses. 
Conant, Woodbury P., SALEM, MASSACHUSETTS. — The col- 
lection of Mr. Conant contains the Cyperaceae, Gramineae, and 
Filices of North America, and the Juncaceae of New England. Mr. 
Conant has made a specialty of the Cyperaceae and Gramineae and 
has most of the North American species of these groups. 
Connecticut Agricultural Experiment Station, New HAVEN, 
Connecticut. — Mr. Oscar D. Allen, formerly an instructor at Yale 
University laid the foundation for this collection, which was con- 
tinued and enlarged by his son, John Alpheus Allen, who sold his 
private herbarium to the Station in 1885. This consisted of his 
collections in Connecticut, Maine, and southern Labrador. The 
herbarium now numbers about 5000 specimens, and is specially rich 
in Saxifraga and Salix, including 69 species and varieties of the latter 
from the herbarium of Michael Schuck Bebb, the well-known Salicol- 
ogist; also in Cyferaceae from all parts of the world. The Station 
also possesses a small mycological collection and many of the princi- 
pal sets of fungi. The herbarium is in charge of Dr. W. C. Sturgis. 
Cummings, Clara Emma, WELLESLEY, MASSACHUSETTS. — 
The herbarium of Miss Cummings consists of about 4000 speci- 
mens of lichens and including Decades of North American Lichens 
distributed by C. E. Cummings, T. A. Williams, and A. B. Seymour; 
also Lichenes Boreali-Americani, some specimens from Calkins, 
some from Arnold, and the set from the Harriman Alaskan Expe- 
dition. Miss Cummings has sold her collection of mosses to Dr. 
G. G. Kennedy. 
Cutler, Manasseh. — Rev. Manasseh Cutler, the earliest New 
England writer upon systematic botany, had a large collection of 
plants both from New England and Ohio, but these were all destroyed 
by fire. 
