United States, presented by Dr. Otto Degener, of the New York 

 Botanical Garden. 



Important exchanges were 2,226 Texas plants received from 

 the Department of Botany of the University of Texas, Austin, and 

 580 specimens of plants of the Fiji Islands, forwarded by the Arnold 

 Arboretum, Harvard University, Jamaica Plain, Massachusetts. 



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Fig. 12. Wild kale from 

 Cliffs of Dover. A plant 

 of the south and west 

 coasts of Europe, probably 

 ancestral to all the Euro- 

 pean kinds of cultivated 

 cabbage and their rela- 

 tives. The original of this 

 exhibit was grown in the 

 Museum from seed ob- 

 tained some years ago in 

 the south of England. 

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In addition to specimens accruing from Museum expeditions, 

 more than 7,600 new items were received in the cryptogamic her- 

 barium. About 4,600 of these were gifts, most of them algae sent 

 for identification by workers in various parts of North and South 

 America. Noteworthy among the gifts is a set of 800 specimens of 

 Mougeot and Nestler, Stirpes Cryptogamae Vogeso-rhenanae (1810- 

 23), presented by Mr. Donald Richards, of Chicago. Some 3,000 

 specimens were received in exchange from other institutions and 

 individuals. 



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