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SCIENTIFIC PAPERS. 
NOTES ON THE GRASSES IN THE BERNHARDI HERBARIUM, 
COLLECTED BY THADDEUS HAENKE, AND DESCRIBED BY 
J. S. PRESL. 
BY F. LAMSON-SCRIBNER. 
In the Bernhardi Herbarium, which, through the earnest 
solicitations of the late Dr. George Engelmann, was ac- 
quired by the founder of the Missouri Botanical Garden,* 
are a large number of the specimens which represent the 
types or co-types of the species described by J. S. Presl in 
C. B. Presl’s Reliquiae Haenkeanae. This collection is 
especially valuable to American botanists, as it includes a 
large number of American species, and has recently become 
even more interesting to the student of American plants as 
it embraces very many species of our newly acquired terri- 
tory in the far East-—the Philippine Islands. Through 
the courtesy of the Director of the Missouri Botanical Gar- 
den, Dr. Wm. Trelease, I have been enabled to examine 
these grasses, of which 121 species of the 334 described by 
Pres] are represented in this collection. It may be of inter- 
est to note here that of the species described by Presl, 153 
are found on the Pacific Coast of North America, most of 
them having been collected in Mexico, a few at Monterey, 
California, and a limited number at Nootka Sound; 102 
species are from South America, chiefly from Peru; 56 
species are from the Philippine Islands, chiefly from Luzon. 
The localities of 15 or 20 more species described by Presl 
were unknown to him. 
* Rept. Mo. Bot. Gard. 2325. 8:19. 
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