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plants of Boston, native and introduced grasses and vasċular crypto- 
gams; also the collection of orchids made by E. H. Hitchings. 
Little effort has been made for its development except in the collec- 
tion of ferns. 
Metropolitan Park Commission, Boston, MASSACHUSETTS, 
see New England Botanical Club. 
Middlebury College, MIDDLEBURY, VERMONT. — The her- 
barium of this college contains about 6000 species and is chiefly 
confined to Vermont plants. It is in charge of President E. 
Brainerd and Dr. E. A. Burt. 
Middlesex Institute, see New England Botanical Club. 
Morong, Thomas.— Dr. Morong’s entire herbarium is now at 
Barnard College, New York City, but is soon to be moved to the New 
York Botanical Garden at Bronx Park. A nearly complete set of 
his Potamogetons is in the herbarium of Mr. Walter Deane. It is 
believed that many of the aquatics from the herbarium of Dr. James 
W. Robbins were incorporated in the Morong herbarium. ‘The 
herbarium is in charge of Professor N. L. Britton, director of the 
New York Botanical Gardens. 
Morris, Edward Lyman, Monson, Massacuuserrs (Tempora- 
rily at Washington, D. C.)— This herbarium contains over 10000 
mounted and unmounted sheets, nearly one third of which are from 
the Connecticut Valley of Massachusetts and Connecticut. To New 
England botanists the chief interest lies in the Dr. Walter H. Chapin 
(of Springfield) collection of grasses and ferns, which in 1885 con- 
tained more species of these plants than had hitherto been reported 
` from this region. From the United States and Canada, the Plant- 
aginaceae are well represented. Mr. Morris’s sheets are available for 
study upon request. 
Morss, Charles Henry, MEDFORD, MASSACHUSETTS. — Mr. 
Morss has a herbarium of about 1200 specimens of New England 
plants collected chiefly by himself. 
Mount Holyoke College, Sours HADLEY, MASSACHUSETTS, — 
There is at this college a herbarium of about Jooo specimens of 
plants representing both phaenogams and cryptogams. Its geograph- 
ical range is a broad one, as many of the plants have been collected 
by graduates of the college who have gone to foreign countries as 
missionaries, India and the Hawaiian Islands being specially repre- 
sented. Here also may be found a part of the herbarium of Dr. J. 
