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Vegetation of Fusi, Japan. — I recently went up Fuji [Fusi] , 

 and was astonished to find an Arabis and a large Onicus growing 

 among the cinders almost to the summit (12-13,000 feet.) I also 

 saw very high ujd (6-7000) large specimens of an Oruhanche among 

 the cinders and scorias. The Cri/jjtomeria, spite of its commonness, 

 I believe to have been introduced. I have never found it in any of 

 the natural forests. On and about Fuji I was struck by the 

 poverty in GlumacecB. — (Extract from a Letter from F. V. Dickins 

 to W. T. Thiselton Dyer.) 



Sxtvacts au» Notices of Uoofts &: i^cmotrs. 



OFFICIAL REPORT FOR 1877 OF THE DEPARTMENT 

 OF BOTANY IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



By William Carruthers, F.R.S. 



The work of incorporating i^lants in the General Herbarium 

 has been actively carried on during the past year. In its progress 

 the plants of the following Natural Orders have been greatly in- 

 creased, and more or less completely re-arranged : — Banunculacea, 

 CaprifoUacea, Bubiacece, CampanidaceiB, Stylidece, (Joodenoviece, 

 Epacridacea, PliimbaginecB, Primulacea, ApocynacecE , Asclepiadacea:, 

 Sapotacem, Selaginea;, MyoporinecB, Filices, and Fimgi. 



The following collections have been either entirely or in part 

 incorporated in the General Herbarium :; — The i)lants of Eastern 

 Tro23ical Afitica, collected by Dr. Hildebrandt ; of Rodriguez, by 

 Dr. I. B. Balfour (in the "Transit of Venus" expedition) ; of West 

 Troi3ical Africa, by Kalbreyer ; of Lake Nyassa, by Simons ; of 

 North Eastern Asia, by Maximowicz ; of Hong Kong, by the Rev. 

 J. Lamont ; of Australia, by Amalia Dietrich ; of Martinique, by 

 Hahn ; of the voyage of H. M. S. "Sulphur," by Barclay; of the 

 voyage of H. M. S. "Challenger," by Moseley. In addition to 

 these, large series of plants by various collectors, of the orders 

 RubiacecB, Compositm, Filices, Fungi, Algce, and Lichenes, have been 

 incorporated with the General Herbarium. 



The principal additions durmg the past year have been two 

 extensive Herbaria ; the one, the general Herbarium of the late 

 R. J. Shuttleworth, of Berne ; the other, the Herbarium of 

 HepaticcB formed by Dr. Hampe. The Shuttleworth Herbarium 

 consists of more than 150,000 labelled si3ecimens of Phanerogams, 

 and over 20,000 of Cryptogams, from all parts of the world, a very 

 large proportion of which will be valuable additions to the Museum 

 collection, while the duj)licates will be made into sets for exchange. 

 Several important herbaria are incorporated in the Shuttleworth 

 Herbarium ; the most valuable of them is the Herbarium of 

 Roemer, the joint author with Schultes of an edition of Liniiajus' 



