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Plants of Wagner collected in Panama and Ecuador are in the 

 royal herbarium of Munich and University of Gottingen. Possibly 

 these include his Venezuelan plants. 



Karsten ('58-'69) who published the extensive flora of Colombia 

 and the adjacent regions included seventy-nine plants collected in 

 Venezuela. 



Plants collected by Birschel at Caracas are in the Gray herbarium. 



Fendler's (see Eaton '61) collections of Venezuelan plants are in the 

 herbariums of de Candolle, Delessert, Engelmann, Franqueville, Uni- 

 versity of Dublin, Gray herbarium, and British museum. August 

 Fendler was a German botanist who lived in Colonia Tovar near 

 Caracas from 1854-59. His collection comprised nearly 3000 num- 

 bers. There is no published list excepting that of the ferns and 

 orchids, and a large part of the plants remain in the herbariums 

 entirely or partially unidentified. Fendler was at one time an assistant 

 at the Gray herbarium and his collecting was carried on to some 

 extent under Dr. Gray's encouragement and patronage. It is be- 

 lieved that the set of his plants in the Gray herbarium is as nearly 

 complete as any in existence. 



Adolphus Ernst, who for a number of years was secretary of agri- 

 culture in Venezuela and also a professor at the University of Cara- 

 cas, has contributed more to our knowledge of the Venezuelan flora 

 than any other man since Humboldt's time. Ernst had in prepa- 

 ration a flora of Venezuela but owing to his death in 1899 it was never 

 completed. He did, however, publish numerous short articles per- 

 taining to the vegetation. A complete list of these occurs in the 

 bibliography of his works published at Jena in 1900 (Ernst, '00b). 

 The more important of these are the lists of the plants of Los Roques 

 (Ernst, '72a), of La Tortuga (Ernst, '76b), of INIargarita (Ernst, '86), 

 and the list of ferns and of the orchids of Venezuela. The plants 

 which he collected appear to be entirely inaccessible today. They 

 are not to be found in the University museum at Caracas nor in the 

 old National museum of natural history. It is possible that they have 

 been sent to various European herbariums. As his lists contain 

 merely the names of the plants with few or no notes,' their identifica- 

 tion in some cases must remain a matter of question. 



In 1896, Professor H. H. Rusby ('96) and Roy "W. Squires collected 

 about the lower Orinoco. Their plants are in the New York college 

 of pharmacy and in the Gray herbarium. 



