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Dame, Lorin Low, MEDFORD, MassacuusEtts.— Mr. Dames’ 
collection is specially devoted to the trees of New England; he also 
has most of the shrubs. His herbarium contains many specimens 
of the same species showing variations. 
Dartmouth College, Hanover, New HAMPSHIRE.— This herba- 
rium contains 40000 sheets of phaenogams, foreign species as well 
as American being represented. It is specially strong in tropical 
ferns but weak in local flora. It includes the herbaria of Professors 
Charles Henry Hitchcock and Henry Griswold Jesup. The latter 
of 3000 or 4000 sheets contains many of Lesquereux’ mosses, of 
Sullivant’s hepatics, and of Tuckerman’s lichens. The herbarium is 
in charge of Mr. George R. Lyman. 
Davenport, George Edward, MEDFORD, MassacHUsETTS,— In 
1875 Mr. Davenport gave his herbarium then containing 116 species 
of ferns to the Massachusetts Horticultural Society of Boston. In 
May, 1900, it comprised about 700 sheets containing nearly 3200 
specimens representing all genera and species of American pterido- 
phyta north of Mexico. It is especially rich in Cheilanthes and 
Botrychium — the ternatum group of the latter genus alone being 
represented by some 200 specimens. 
Deane, Walter, CAMBRIDGE, MASSACHUSETTS. — Mr. Deane’s 
herbarium was started in 1880 and now contains over 36000 sheets. 
The geographical limit is that of Gray's Manual and the -botanical 
limit the phaenogams and vascular cryptogams. In its early years 
many American plants outside the Manual region were included 
but none are incorporated now, also probably one thousand Euro- 
pean specimens many of which are plants which have been intro- 
duced into America. Many specialists have worked over the 
plants of their own groups; the 2800 sheets of Carex, coming 
from all parts of North America, having been examined by Profes- 
sor L. H. Bailey; the Junci by Dr. George Engelmann; the genus 
Salix by Mr. M. S. Bebb; the Umbelliferae by Drs. Coulter & 
. Rose; the genus Vitis by Professor L. H. Bailey; and many 
miscellaneous plants have been determined by Dr. Gray and Dr. 
Watson. The Potamogetons, about 700 specimens also from all 
parts of North America, are unmounted in order to show venation, 
and until his death were all determined by Dr. Morong who con- 
tributed duplicates of nearly all his own material to Mr. Deane's 
herbarium. Many of the grasses have been examined by Messrs. 
