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herbarium, especially the Mosses, Hepaticee, Algæ, and Fungi, with the 
addition of numerous specimens from the herbarium of Mr. Lyle, and 
from other collections. And in the continued examination of the 
Sloanean herbarium, especially in reference to British plants. 
Mr. Bennett has to acknowledge the great kindness of Mrs. Gray, 
in undertaking and completing the re-arrangement, with large addi- 
tions, of the British collection of 4/ge; and the unremitting attention 
bestowed by the Rev. W. W. Newbould on the British collection gene- 
rally, and on the British plants of the Sloanean herbarium in particular. 
The following are the principal additions which have been made to 
the department during the same period, by purchase or donation:— 
500 species of British plants from various collectors. 126 species of 
rare or critieal British plants, presented by A. G. More, Esq. 67 
species of British diye, including two fine specimens of Codium Bursa, 
L., collected by Miss Poore and Miss Scott. 32 species and varieties _ 
of the genus Mentha, from the herbarium of Dr. Wirtgen. 103 
species of Cichoracee, prepared by Dr. Schultz, of Deuxponts. 2300 
species of German plants, forming part of the * Flora Germanice 
Exsiceata”’ of Professor Reichenbach. 1580 species of plants of the 
Tyrol, from the Ferdinandeum at Innsbruck. 387 species of Hepaéice 
and Mosses, collected in and near the Pass of the Simplon, presented 
by Professor Gagliardi. 105 species of Hepatice and Lichens, forming 
part of Rabenhorst’s ‘Hepatic’ and * Lichenes Europe.’ 129 
species of plants of Ceylon, collected by Mr. Thwaites. 690 species 
of plants of Southern and tropical Australia, collected by Dr. Ferd. 
Müller. 89 species of plants of Lizard Island, collected by Mr. 
M'Gillivray. 457 species of plants of Tasmania, collected and pre- 
sented by Dr. Milligan. 128 species of Alyæ of Tasmania, from the 
Rev. P. Parry Fogg. 190 species of plants of Sierra Leone, from 
various collectors. 162 species of plants from the river Zambesi, col- 
lected by the Rev. J. Stewart. 1365 species of plants of the Cape of 
Good Hope, from various collectors. 27 species of Alga, collected at 
Algoa Bay. 87 species of plants of Madagascar, collected by M. 
Helsinberg. 340 species of Cryptogamous plants of South Carolina, 
collected by Mr. Ravenal. 218 species of plants of Panamá, collected 
by Mr. Sutton Hayes. 80 species of plants of Jamaica, presented by 
the representatives of Henry Osborne, Esq. 18 species of plants of 
Peru, from the mountains of the province of Iquiqué, collected by Mr. 
