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New England, collected and named by Tuckerman : 773 species of 



plants from Chili, collected by E. C. Reed. Cryptogamia. — 865 



species of the Cryptogamic plants of Europe, named by Funk : 100 

 species of vascular Cryptogams from Germany, named by Professor 

 Reichenbach: herbarium of Indian Ferns, collected by Lieut. -Colonel 

 Beddome : 60 species of Mosses and Hepatic^, collected in Brazil by 

 Burchell, presented by the Rev. W. A. Leighton : 25 species of Scan- 

 dinavian Hepaticge, collected and named by Lindberg and Laekstrom : 

 60 species of Mosses from Normandy, collected and named by Etienne : 

 50 species of Hepaticae, named by Rabenhorst : 50 species of Mosses, 

 named by Rabenhorst : 250 species of Mosses, collected and named by 

 Blandow : 276 species of Mosses from Ceylon, presented by Dr. 

 Thwaites : 988 species of Lichens from Italy, named by Anzi : 100 

 species of Lichens, named by Rabenhorst : 150 species of Lichens from 

 North America, collected and named by Tuckerman : 667 species of 

 Lichens from New Grenada, being Lindig's " Study Set" : 169 species 

 of Lichens from Ceylon, presented by Dr. Thwaites : 200 species of 

 Lichens from Germany, named by Florke : 200 species of Norrlin's 

 Fennian Lichens, named by Nylander : 25 species of Characese, named 

 by Nordstedt : 300 species of Scandinavian Algae, collected by Areschoug : 

 200 species of European Algte, collected by Jurgen : 600 species of 

 Ascomycetous Fungi, collected by Rehm : 500 species of Fungi, col- 

 lected and named by V. Thuemen : 600 species of Fungi from Germany, 

 collected and named by Fueckel. 



British Herbarium. — Phanerogamia. — 473 species of plants, chiefly 

 from Buckinghamshire, collected and presented by Miss Chandler : 

 100 species, forming Don's " Herbarium liritannicum " : a large col- 

 lection of Irish plants, made by Isaac Carroll. Cryptogamia. — A 



collection of Mosses and Aigse made in Ireland by I. Carroll : a 

 large herbarium of Lichens, formed by the Rev. A. Bloxam : 100 

 species of Lichens from "Wales, collected and named by the Rev. W. A. 

 Leighton : 130 species of Fungi, collected and named by C. B. Plow- 

 right. 



II. — To the Fossil Series. 



Seven species of new fossils from the Coal-measures of Belgium, pre- 

 sented by Professor Crepin : a specimen of the cone of Pinites hexa- 

 gonus from the Gault, presented by J. S. Gardner, Esq. : A remaik- 

 ably fine cone of Lepidodendron, from the Carboniferous rocks near 

 Edinburgh, found by Ch. W. Peach, Esq. : specimens .of plants from 

 the Inferior Oolite, collected and presented by Ch. W. Peach, Esq., 

 Edinburgh, and J. W. Bodger, Esq., Peterborough : specimens of 

 Coal-meas(ire plants from West Calder, presented by Messrs. Galletly 

 and Lumsden : 45 specimens of woods from the Red Crag. 



The arrangement of the original drawings of British plants by the 

 elder Sowerby, together with the engravings made from them, has been 

 completed. Large additions have been made during the year to the 

 Herbarium of British plants, which has become the most extensive and 

 critically valuable public collection of our native Flora, and is becoming 

 increasingly used by British botanists. 



A series of duplicate Mosses from the Arctic regions was, by the 

 authority of the Trustees, prepared and placed in the hands of one of 



