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collected in S.W. Africa by Prof. H. H. W. Pearson ; Mr. and Mrs. 

 P. Amaury Talbot, 738 phanerogams and 3 ferns from the Eket 

 District, South Nigeria. 



Australasia. — Miss B. de Pledge, specimen of Verticordia 

 Forrestiana from Western Australia. 



Oceania. — Miss L. S. Gibbs, 8 phanerogams and 3 ferns from 

 Hawaii. 



America.— My. E. Heber Howe, Junr., 24 Lichenes Novse 

 Anglige ; Prof. H. Lecomte, 3 Buhiacea from Tropical America ; 

 Kev. A. Miles Moss, 35 Brazilian plants ; T. A. Sprague, Esq., 21 

 Buhiacem from Venezuela ; the Director, University Botanic 

 Garden, Pennsylvania, 26 North American Scroplmlarinea. 



General. — Miss G. Lister, 340 exotic mycetozoa. 



Cultivated Plants. — W. E. Balston, Esq., 3 orchids; E. H. 

 Beamish, Esq., inflorescence of Furcrcea and 3 other plants ; 

 E. A. Bowles, Esq., 2 phanerogams ; Sir Trevor Lawrence, Bart., 

 10 orchids; J. O'Brien, Esq., 2 orchids ; D. M. Moss, Esq., some 

 abnormally developed pears ; Hon. N. C. Eothschild, 29 orchids. 



(2) By Purchase. 



British Isles. — Botanical Exchange Club, 108 phanerogams ; 

 Eev. E. F. Linton, 17 specimens of British willows ; C. E. Hartley 

 Smith, 10 specimens of prepared British fungi. Special mention 

 should be made of the Moss-Herbarium of Dr. E. Braithwaite, 

 estimated to contain 5300 specimens, representing 600 species, the 

 types of his British ' Moss- Flora ' (1880-1905). 



Europe. — Through Dulau d; Co. — 0. Jaap, 50 fungi selecti, 

 ser. XXV., xxvi., and 20 myxomycetes, ser. vii. ; J. E. Kabat and 

 Bubak, 50 fungi imperfect!, fasc. xv. ; K. W. Krieger, 50 fungi 

 Saxonici, fasc. xlv. ; A. Paulin, Flora exsiccata Carniolica, cent, ix., 

 x. ; D. Saccardo, 169 fungi, Mycotheca Italica, cent, xvii., xviii., 

 part i. ; J. Schiller, H. Cammerlohe, and G. Seefeldner, 30 Algae 

 Adriaticse, cent, i., fasc. 2 ; H. and P. Sydow, 50 fungi, Mycotheca 

 Germanica, fasc. xxiv. ; A. Toepffer, 50 specimens, Salicetum 

 exsiccatum, fasc. viii. ; T. Vestergren, 150 micromycetes rariores 

 selecti, fasc. Ixiii.-lxviii. 



Through B. Friedldnder A Sohn. — M. Britzelmayr, 144 lichenes 

 Bavariae exsiccati, with figures. 



Through T. 0. Weigel. — V. F. Brotherus, 100 mosses, Bryo- 

 theca Fennica, fasc. iii. ; A. Fiori et A. Beguinot, Flora Italica 

 exsiccata, cent, xvii., xviii.; A. von Hayek, 50 specimens, Cen- 

 taurese exsiccatse criticae, fasc. i.; F. Petrak, 100 specimens, Flora 

 Bohemias et Moraviae exsiccata, lief. xii. 



From the Publishers.— H. Sudre, Batotheca Europaea, fasc. xi., 

 50 specimens, and Herbarium Hieraciorum, fasc. iii., 50 specimens. 



Asia. — S. T. Dunn, 40 Chinese plants collected by E. E. Maire ; 

 W. Siehe, 250 rare Oriental plants (selected). 



Africa. — E. Chiovenda, Flora della Colonia Eritrea, cent, i., ii., 

 prepared by A. Pappi ; E. Gilg, 290 phanerogams and 10 vascular 

 cryptogams from Cameroons, collected by G. Zenker ; E. M. 

 Eeineck, 312 Algerian plants collected by A. Faure, and 276 plants 

 collected in Morocco and Tunis by C. J. Pitard ; Eev. F. A. 



