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Dr. Asa Gray; 60 species plants, collected by Hooker and 

 Ball in Marocco in 1 SY 1 ; 22 species from Southern Europe; 

 55 species of Carices from Sweden and Lapland, and 3 spe- 

 cies North American plants. 



Dr. A. P. Garber, Columbia, Pa.; 555 species of plants col- 

 lected by him mostly near Manatee, Florida. 



John H. Redfield; 102 species European plants, inostty from 

 Buda-Pesth, Hungary; also Asplenium mucronalum, from 

 Tijuca, Brazil. 



Thomas Meehan ; Viola Beckwithii, collected in Washington 

 Territory, b}^ Mrs. F. E. Putuam. 



Dr. J. A. Warder, Cincinnati, 0. ; sections of wood of Catalpa 

 bignonioides, variety speciosa. 

 May. Dr. Asa Gray; 49 species plants, collected in Kergnelan 

 Land, by J. H. Kidder, of British Transit Expedition, and 

 73 species collected mostly in Northern Borneo, by F. W. 

 Burb ridge. 



John H. Redfield ; 29 species of plants, collected by Dr. C. C. 

 Parry and Dr. E. Palmer, chiefly in the region of San Luis 

 Potosi, Mexico, in 1878. 



Dr. C. C. Parry, of Davenport, la.; part of a saddle-cloth in 

 common use in Mexico, made from the fibre of Yucca. 



Wm. M. Canby ; Shortia gaiicifolia, collected by M. E. Hyams, 

 in McDowell Co., N. C; also Baptisia sulphurea, from 

 Limestone Gap, Indian Territory, collected by G. D. Butler. 



Isaac C. Martindale; Ellis's 2d Century of North American 

 Fungi, being 100 species of Fungi, neatly mounted in book 

 form. 

 June. Miss E. S. Boyd ; 37 species ferns from Sandwich Islands. 



George E. Davenport, Boston, Mass. ; 5 species ferns, from 

 Florida. 



Wm. M. Canby ; 2 species California ferns, new to the col- 

 lection. 



Ashmead Bros., Jacksonville, Fla., through Dr. G. II. Horn ; 

 Sarracenia variolaris, Mx., from Florida. 



A. L. Siler, of Osmer, Utah ; Cones of Abies Engelmanni, 

 from Kanab Canon, Southern Utah. 

 September. Dr. Asa Gray ; 64 species plants, mostly from Oregon 

 and California. 



