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agrees with me in the determination of the species. 4. wliginos 
grows in swampy, spongy flats, surrounding the small lake ealled, 
in the Ordnance Map, Cregduff Lough, less than a mile south-west of 
Roundstone. 
July 29, 1869. 
[Though new to Ireland, this plant had already been found in Scot- 
land, and was deseribed and figured in Vol. IV. p. 176, by Mr. J. G. 
Baker.— Ep.] 
OFFICIAL REPORT ON THE BOTANICAL DEPART- 
MENT OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, 1869. 
By Joun J. Bennett, Ese., F.R.S. 
(Ordered by the House of Commons to be printed.) 
The principal business of the department during the past year has 
consisted ,— 
In the rearrangement in the general herbarium of the families of 
Gramineae, Belulacee, Salicine, Conifere, and Cycadee, and of several 
other smaller families of plants. 
In the naming, arranging, and laying into the general herbarium of 
large collections of plants from the Neilgherry Mountains of India, 
formed by Metz, Schmidt, and other collectors; of a collection formed 
by Dr. Schweinfurth in the countries bordering on the course of the 
Nile; of a collection of the plants of Algeria, formed by M. Romain; 
of collections formed in the neighbourhood of Smyrna, and in other 
parts of the East, by M. Balansa ; of collections formed by M. Kotschy 
in Cilicia and Kurdistan ; of a collection formed by M. Sagot in French 
Guiana; of M. Philippi and M. Germain’s collections of Chilian 
plants; of a collection of Californian plants formed by Mr. Bolander ; 
of several collections of Greenland and other Arctic plants; of speci- 
mens of Palms from various regions, and of numerous smaller collec- 
tions from different quarters. 
In the rearrangement of a large portion of the collection of fruits 
and seeds in glass-topped boxes; and of the specimens, recent and 
fossil, of the family of Cycadee, incorporating them with the valuable 
collection presented by Mr. James Yates. 
