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species were early established. It is hardly proper, indeed, that 

 either the elder or younger Aiton should be quoted for these species, 

 since the first edition was prepared by Solander, and the second 

 revised by Dryander, as to vols. i. and ii., and the remainder by 

 Mr. Brown. Many American plants from the Physic Garden at 

 Chelsea, named by Miller, are here preserved, as also from the gar- 

 dens of CoUinson, Dr. Fothergill (who was Bartram's correspondent 

 after Collinson's death). Dr. Pitcairne, etc. There are likewise 

 many contributions of indigenous plants of the United States, from 

 Bartram, Dr. Mitchell, Dr. Garden, Fraser, Marshall, and other 

 early cultivators of botany in this country. The herbarium also 

 comprises many plants from Labrador and Newfoundland, a portion 

 of which were collected by Sir Joseph Banks himself; and in the 

 plants of the northern and arctic regions, it is enriched by the col- 

 lections of Parry, Ross, and Dr. Richardson. Two sets of the 

 plants collected by the venerable Me.nzies in Vancouver's voyage 

 are preserved at the British Museum, the one incorporated with the 

 Banksian herbarium, the other forming a separate collection. Those 

 of this country are from the north-west coast, the mouth of the 

 Oregon river, and from California. Many of Pursh's species were 

 described from specimens preserved in this herbarium, especially 

 the Oregon plants of Menzies, and those of Bartram and others 

 from the more southern United States, which Pursh had never 

 visited, although he often adds the mark v. v. (vidi vivam) to species 

 which are only to be met with south of Virginia. 



The herbarium of Walter still remains in the possession of the 

 Fraser family, and in the same condition as when consulted by 

 Pursh. It is a small collection, occupying a single large volume. 

 The specimens, which are commonly mere fragments, often serve 

 to identify the species of the * Flora Caroliniana,' although they are 

 not always labelled in accordance with that work. 



The collections of Pursh, which served as the basis of his * Flora 

 Americse Septentrionalis,' are in the possession of Mr. Lambert, and 

 form a part of his immense herbarium. These, with a few speci- 

 mens T^rought by Lewis and Clark from Oregon and the Rocky 

 Mountains, a set of Nuttall's collections on the Missouri, and also 

 of Bradbury's, so far as they are extant, with a small number from 

 Fraser, Lyon, etc., compose the most important portion of this her- 

 barium, so far as North American botany is concerned. There is 

 also a small Canadian collection, made by Pursh subsequently to 

 the publication of his Flora, a considerable number of Menzies's 

 plants, and other minor contributions. To the general botanist, 

 probably the fine herbarium of Pallas, and the splendid collection of 

 Ruiz and Pavon (both acquired by Mr. Lambert at a great expense), 

 are of the highest interest ; and they are by no means unimportant 

 in their relations to North American botany, since the former com- 

 prises several species from the north-west coast, and numerous 

 allied Siberian forms ; while our Californian plants require, in some 

 instances, to be compared with the Chilian and Peruvian plants of 

 the latter. 



£To be continued.] 



