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down into tlie bulb-scales. The fungns parasite causing this 

 injury is Fusarium hulbigenuTn, Cke. and Mass- 



A bacterial heart-rot of celery appears to be on the increase, 

 and has, in one instance, been traced to the use of lime. Manure 

 having an acid reaction, as superphosphate, should be used. 



Work is in progress 



rminm 



amon 



are in reality primary causes of disease, and nc 

 in aggravating a disease originally due to some 



mer 



States, Nig 



material has been received from the Federated Malaj 



West Indies, and a serious disease 



of bananas from Fiji is at present under observation. 



Additions to the Herbarium during 1913. — During the year 



about 20,000 specimens were received as donations or exchanges, 

 as well as the Wallichian and Horsfield Herbaria, while about 

 7300 were purchased, and 5200 received on loan. The principal 

 collections are enumerated below : 



EuEOFE- — Presented : Iceland, by Miss L. S. Gibbs; theBritish 

 Herbarium of John Tatham, by Prof. Silvanus Thompson; 

 Britain, by the Rev. H. J. Riddelsdell; Flora Hungarica Exsic- 

 cata. Cent, i., by the Hungarian National Museum; Krypto- 

 gamia Exsiccata, by the K. K. Naturhistorisches Hofmuseum, 

 Vienna; Gibraltar, by Major A, H. Wolley-Dod, R.A. ; 

 Eastern Atlantic Algae, by Prof. C. Sauvageau. 



Pnrchased : Dr. A. von Hayek, Centaureae Exsiccatae 

 Criticae, fasc. 1; H. Sydow, Mycotheca Germanica, fasc. 24; 

 W. Briukman, Westfalische Pilze, Liefr. 1-4; Fiori & Beguinot, 

 Flora Italica Exsiccata, Cent, xvii.-xviii., and Xylotomotheca 

 Italica. 



North Apeica and Orient. — Presented: Isle of Ormuz, 

 Persian Gulf (Paul B. Popenoe), by Mr. F. W- Pop^noe; Kashaf 

 Pud, Persia, by Mrs. P. M. Sykes. 



Purchased : F. Vester & Co., Palestine; — Haradjian (per Dr, 

 J. Briquet), Northern Syria; M. Gandoger, Moroccan Algae; R. 



Maire, North African Fungi. 



NoRTHEJix Asia. — Presented : Kamtschatka, by the Imperial 

 Botanic Garden of Peter the Great, St. Petersburg ; Siberia, 

 Mongolia and Chinese Turkestan (F. N. Meyer), by H.S. Dept. 

 of AoTiculture. 



CmifA AKD JAPAJf. — Presented: China and Tibet (G. Forrest), 

 by the Eoyal Botanic Garden, Edinburgli ; Tung Cbun, China, 

 by Mr. H. F. Rankin; Formosa, bj Dr. B. Hayata through Mr. 

 W. R. Price. 



Purchased : Pere E. J. Taquet, Corea. 



India. — Presented: The Wallichian Herbarium, by the 

 Linnean Society; India, various localities, by the Royal Botanic 

 Garden, Calcutta, Mr. J- S. Gamble, Mr. A.Meebold and Mr. J. 

 Ramsay Drummond; Central Provinces, by Mr, H. H. Haines; 



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