South Carolina material. Much of the rest was worthless, being 

 either unlabelled or ruined by insects or mould, and has been de- 

 stroyed, but any specimens hinting of possible value have been 

 preserved for further examination after the local material has 

 been worked up. 



The most important discovery is the valuable collection of 

 Dr. Ravenel. Beside the cryptogams there are over a thousand 

 species of flowering plants from South Carolina alone. Six 

 hundred and twenty-nine of these have been remounted and in- 

 corporated in the new herbarium. All are in excellent condition, 

 carefully labelled and initialed by Dr. Ravenel. A few of the 

 specimens came from about Charleston and a few from Aiken, 

 but the main part was gathered in the Santee Canal region, 

 where Dr. Ravenel made his home until he moved to Aiken at 

 the age of thirty-nine. Internal evidence would indicate that 

 this collection was made during the forties, and was probably 

 given to the Museum soon after its establishment at the College 

 of Charleston in 1850. It was at the meeting of the American 

 Association for the Advancement of Science held in Charleston 

 in that year that Ravenel presented his Catalogue of the Natural 

 Orders of Plants, inhabiting the vicinity of the Santee Canal, 

 S. C 



This catalog was based upon a collection made ' ' in the vi- 

 cinity of the Santee Canal, St. John's (Berkley) Parish, S. C. 

 The plants have been collected mostly in the neighborhood of 

 Black Oak, and between that place and Cooper River eight or 

 ten miles South, My excursions have occasionally led me as 

 far as the Santee Swamp, ten or twelve miles North, and some 

 few in my catalogue have been found only at Eutaw Springs, 

 twenty miles North- West. Probably nineteen-twentieths of the 

 Pheenogamous plants have been found within the first named 

 limits, and with very few exceptions, all the Cryptogamia. ' '^ 



Ravenel lists 1075 species of phaenogamous plants, practically 

 the number contained in the Museum's Ravenel collection. 



'Proc. Amer. Asso. Adv. Sci., Charleston meeting, 1850, p. 3. 



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