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the world for Labiatse, and is perhaps nearly unrivalled for Legumi- 

 nosse, Scrophularineae, and the other tribes to which he has devoted 

 especial attention : it is also particularly full and authentic in Euro- 

 pean plants. Professor Lindley's herbarium, which is very complete 

 in every department, is wholly unrivalled in Orchidaceous plants. 

 The genus-covers are made of strong and smooth hardware paper, 

 the names being written on a slip of white paper pasted on the lower 

 comer. This is an excellent plan, as covers of white paper in the 

 herbarium of an active botanist are apt to be soiled by frequent use. 

 The paper employed by Dr. Lindley is 1 8^ inches in length, and 1 l-J 

 inches wide, which, as he. has himself remarked, is rather larger than 

 is necessary, and much too expensive for general use. 



The herbarium of Sir William J. Hooker, at Glasgow, is not only 

 the largest and most valuable collection in the world, in the posses- 

 sion of a private individual, but it also comprises the richest collec- 

 tion of North American plants in Europe. Here we find nearly 

 complete sets of the plants collected in the Arctic voyages of dis- 

 covery, the overland journeys of Franklin to the polar sea, the collec- 

 tions of Drummond and Douglas in the Rocky Mountains, Oregon, 

 and CaHfomia, as well as those of Professor Scouler, Mr. Tolmie, 

 Dr. Gairdner, and numerous officers of the Hudson's Bay Company, 

 from almost every part of the vast territory embraced in their opera- 

 tions, from one side of the continent to the other. By an active and 

 prolonged correspondence with nearly all the botanists and lovers of 

 plants in the United States and Canada, as well as by the collections 

 of travellers, this herbarium is rendered unusually rich in the botany 

 of this country ; while Drummond' s Texan collections, and many 

 contributions from Mr. Nuttall and others, very fully represent the 

 flora of our southern and western confines. That these valuable 

 materials have not been buried, nor suffered to accumulate to no 

 purpose or advantage to science, the pages of the * Flora Boreali- 

 Americana,' the * Botanical Magazine,' the * Botanical Miscellany,' 

 the ' Journal of Botany,' the ' Icones Plantarum,' and other works 

 of this industrious botanist, abundantly testify ; and no single herba- 

 rium will afford the student of North American botany such exten- 

 sive aid as that of Sir William Hooker. 



The herbarium of Dr. Arnott of Arlary, although more especially 

 rich and authentic in East Indian plants, is also interesting to the 

 North American botanist, as well for the plants of the * Botany of 

 Captain Beechey's Voyage,' etc., published by Hooker and himself, 

 as the collections of Drummond and others, all of which have been 

 carefully studied by this sagacious botanist. 



The most important botanical collection in Paris, and indeed per- 

 haps the largest in the world, is that of the Royal Museum, at the 

 Jardin des Plantes or Jardin du Roi. We cannot now devote even 

 a passing notice to the garden and magnificent new conservatories of 

 this noble institution, much less to the menagerie, the celebrated 

 museum of zoology and anatomy, or the cabinet of mineralogy, geo- 

 logy and fossil remains, which, newly arranged in a building recently 

 erected for its reception, has just been thrown open to the public. 



