COLLECTIONS. 45 
B. Collections of plants which are either themselves offici- 
nal, or which furnish the crude medicinal or technical substances, 
or afford the material for preparations. Botanical gardens 
present such plants in the living state with most admirable 
selection and arrangement, for example, those of Kew (pages 
12 and 44) and Edinburgh, the gardens of the Ecole de 
Pharmacie, and of the Faculté de Médecine in Paris, and 
those of Berlin, Amsterdam, Vienna, and Palermo.’ In the 
garden of Mr. Thomas Hanbury at Mortola, near Mentone, 
France, there are also cultivated many pharmaceutically impor- 
tant plants.” 
Similar and very excellent results have been attained at the 
garden of the University of Breslau through the judicious and 
untiring efforts of Géppert.* The large Umbellifere of Asia, 
which furnish asafetida, galbanum, sumbul and ammoniacum, 
are cultivated by Mr. Max Leichtlin in Baden-Baden. 
Many plants of pharmaceutical importance are, as yet, to be 
had only with difficulty or not at all, or are at least not readily 
obtainable in the living state, so that all knowledge concerning 
them must be derived from herbaria, or from descriptive and 
illustrative representations. Such are presented in the greatest 
degree of completeness by the previously mentioned institutes in 
Kew, London and Paris; and the botanical museum (section, Her- 
1 In the United States, the gardens of Mr. Henry Shaw, at St. Louis, 
Mo., are deserving of special mention, while the Congressional garden 
and garden of the Department of Agriculture at Washington, the 
botanical garden at Cambridge, near Boston, and the Arnold Arboretum 
(for woody plants) at Brookline, Mass., likewise present something of 
interest. There is also under contemplation the establishment of a large 
botanical garden at Montreal, under the direction of the McGill Univer- 
sity and the local horticultural society (F. B. P.). 
2See Flickiger, ‘‘Osterferien in Ligurien;” Buchner’s Repertorium 
fir Pharmacie, xxv. (1876), 449-505; also (Fliickiger) ‘“‘ La Mortola, Der 
Garten des Herrn Thomas Hanbury,” Strassburg, 1886 (privately 
printed), pp. 30. 
3 Compare his publications: ‘‘ Unsere officinellen Pflanzen,” Gorlitz, 
1883, pp. 12; and ‘‘Catalog der botanischen Museen der Universitat 
Breslau,” Gérlitz, 1884, pp. 54. 
