OF LOWER fellEENSAND PLANTS. 331 



V. 7796-V. 7801. Old sections from the type-specimen V. 6132. 



V. 7796. A thick uncovered section of o X 3 cm. in diameter, 

 chiefly through the pith, and on one side showing parts 

 of four broken rings of secondary wood. Cut into 

 the glas j , probably in Sir Joseph Hooker's writing, 

 is "llaumeria M.E.G." 



V. 7797. A similar uncovered section, rather smaller, but 

 showing more of the wood, and also a leaf-trace 

 passing out through the whole width of the wood- 

 x.ones. Also has " Raumeria M.E.G." cut into the 

 glass. 



V. 7798. A similar, rather larger, and still thicker uncovered 

 section. 



V. 7799. A large, very thick section, 1O5 cm. across by a 

 maximum of 3 cm. in width. This is extremely thick 

 and opaque, but shows parts of the wood-/ones on 

 opposite sides of the wide pith, which measures a 

 little over 7 cm. in diameter. 



V. 7801. A much larger and more nearly perfect section, 

 obviously of the same specimen, though there is no 

 writing on the glass. The trunk is apparently nearly 

 circular in outline and about half of it is represented 

 in the section, which has an area of 11 X 6*5 cm. With 

 the naked eye, four or five rings of w r ood can be 

 seen surrounding the large pith, 7*5 cm. in diameter; 

 under the microscope the tissue is too opaque and 

 thick to show much detail, but locally small /ones of 

 tissue can be clearly seen. The details visible prove 

 the specimen to be the same as trunk V. 6132, from 

 which sections were recently cut. No history. 



Transferred from the Botanical Dept., 1898. 



V. 10156. A thick covered section, apparently from the same 



material. Cut into the glass, in the same handwriting 



as is mentioned above, are the words " llaumeria 



(Goeppert), Greenland ? J. D. Hooker." No history. 



Transferred from the Botanical Dejr>t., 1898. 



