MISSOURI BOTANICAL GARDEN BULLETIN 25 
ranking as one of the first four American herbaria, namely 
along with Harvard, the New York Botanical Garden, and 
the United States National Herbarium. 
The Anal Report for 1912 enumerates several of the pri- 
_-wate herbaria which have become a part of the organized Gar- 
den herbarium as follows: 
The George Engelmann Herbarium...... 97,859 specimens 
“J. J. Bernhardi Nasco cai 68,134 * 
“Henry Eggert ae ee are 26,704 vg 
“J. H. Redfield Oh Steyn 16,447 : 
* Sturtevant & Smith RL ge 7,446 ff 
“Gustav Jermy ge, 6,177 i 
“A. W. Chapman ES See ee 3,536 5 
“ Julien Reverchon ill See PE ae 17,210 7 
* Nicholas. Riehl Ce ey 3,359 & 
“« A. F, Eby hee = ate yi 5,069 re 
« §. M. Tracy nina rigor a 4,393 ‘s 
“ William Trelease pia oa eer 11,000 e 
SJ. 1. SOOr i ae 4,133 si 
From other Boutees: 23 255 Ais es 427,239 os, 
FLODA Le cil cae OOS ok 698,706 specimens oF 
Of these the Engelmann, Eggert, Jermy, Joor, Reverchon, 
Riehl and Tracy collections are largely from the lower Mis- 
sissippi Valley and the southwest. And in addition to these 
a few of the more noteworthy and representative series of 
exsiccati from the same general region and extending into 
Mexico may be mentioned as follows: Berlandier, Texas and 
New Mexico; Gregg, northern Mexico; Lindheimer, Texas; 
Parish, southern California; Abrams, southern California; 
Orcutt, southern and Lower California; Pringle, Arizona and 
Mexico; Blumer, Arizona; Bush, Craig, Davis, Letterman 
and E. J. Palmer, Missouri; Wright, New Mexico; E. Palmer, 
Arizona and Mexico; Parry and Palmer, Mexico; Wislizenus, 
New Mexico and Mexico; Mumford, Texas; Lemmon, Purpus 
‘and Wilcox, Arizona; Jones, Arizona and Utah; Fendler, © 
Greene, Heller, Metcalfe, Standley and Wooton, New Mexico; 
Carleton, Kansas; Baker, Crandall, Hall and Harbour, Parry, 
and Patterson, Colorado; Kellogg, Arkansas, and J. G. Smith, 
Texas and Mexico. 
A complete inventory of all the collectors whose plants are 
represented in the herbarium would embrace the names 
of most American botanists and others who have made collec- 
tions of plants during the last seventy years; but those 
names and collections mentioned indicate very clearly that 
the herbarium has amassed a relatively large representation 
of the indigenous plants of the southwest, re therefore affords 
