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REPORT OF DEFT. OF BOTANY, BRITISH MUSEUM, 1913. 

 By a. B. Eendle, D.Sc, F.R.S. 



Acquisitions. 

 (1) By Donation. 



Additions to the British Herbarium have been received from 

 the following donors: — The Council of the South London Botanical 

 Institute, seeds of 101 species, mainly British ; H. C. Baker, Esq., 

 2 phanerogams; E. J. Bedford, Esq., 4 orchids; C. E. Britton, 

 Esq., 148 phanerogams ; C. Bucknall, Esq., 3 species of Sym- 

 fhytum ; E. M. Day, Esq., 2 phanerogams ; G. C. Druce, Esq., 62 

 phanerogams; Mrs. F. L. Foord-Kelcey, 2 species of Galium; 

 Miss G. Lister, 167 mycetozoa ; J. E. Little, Esq., 2 phanerogams ; 

 Eev. E. S. Marshall, 200 phanerogams ; Mrs. Evelyn Northcote, 

 2 species of Plantago ; Eev. H. J. Eiddelsdell, 152 phanerogams ; 

 H. N. Eidley, Esq., C.M.G., 9 phanerogams from Cornwall ; Eev. 

 W. M. Eogers, 4 species of Eubi ; C. E. Salmon, Esq., 41 

 phanerogams ; W. E. Sherrin, Esq., 3 moss-slides for microscope, 

 2 mosses, and 5 hepatics ; the Watson Botanical Exchange Club, 

 71 phanerogams. 



The following donations have been made to the General 

 Herbarium : — 



Europe. — Miss L. S. Gibbs, 24 phanerogams and 2 ferns from 

 Iceland ; H. F. A. Mallock, Esq., F.E.S., diatom-material [Gom- 

 pJwnema cajntatuvi) from South of Spain ; Hon. N. C. Eothschild, 

 7 phanerogams, chiefly from Hungary ; C. E. Salmon, Esq., 4 

 phanerogams ; W. E. Sherrin, Esq., 3 alpine mosses ; H. S. 

 Thompson, Esq., 2 phanerogams from South of France ; Major 

 A. H. WoUey-Dod, 20 Gibraltar plants. 



Asia. — Prof. F. O. Bower, specimens of a new species of fern 

 from Darjeeling {Matteuccia) ; S. T. Dunn, Esq., fruits of Derris 

 'parviflora from Ceylon ; Miss L. S. Gibbs, 304 phanerogams and 

 128 cryptogams from British North Borneo ; Sir E. G. Loder, 

 cones of Pinus 2^umila from S. Yakutsk in Siberia ; Dr. E. D. 

 Merrill, 9 photographs of Philippine liuhiacece ; the Director of 

 the Imperial Botanic Gardens, St. Petersburg, 2 new species from 

 E. Asia; J. N. Sheffield, Esq., 10 ferns, 24 mosses, 24 hepatics, 

 and 10 lichens from Perak ; and 1 fungus from C. G. Lloyd, Esq. 



Africa. — Mrs. W. E. Balston, 113 phanerogams from vicinity 

 oi Cape Town ; Lieut. G. St. J. Orde Browne, 32 phanerogams 

 from Kenya Province, Brit. E. Africa ; E. H. Bunting, Esq., 50 

 phanerogams from Liberia ; Col. F. A. Chaves, sample of Cooron- 

 gite containing diatoms from Lake Furnas, Azores ; T. F. Chipp, 

 Esq., 52 phanerogams and 2 ferns from the Gold Coast; Dr. D. T. 

 MacDougal, 195 phanerogams and 6 cryptogams from Egypt and 

 Eed Sea Province ; E. E. Massey, Esq., 150 flowering plants from 

 the Soudan ; C. F. H. Monro, Esq., 452 plianerogams and 6 ferns 

 from Ehodesia ; Hon. W. Eothschild, 23 phanerogams and 1 fern 

 from N.W. Algeria and 8 enlarged photographs of trees in the 

 Public Gardens, Algiers ; the Percy Sladen Trustees, 22 plants 



