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Presl (KAREL BORIWOG). [1794-1852] 



A small set of his "Reliquiae Haenkeanae" acquired with Herb. 

 Shuttleworth. 



Preston (THOMAS ARTHUR). [1833- ] 



294 British plants, presented 1887-88. 

 Prichard (H. HESKETH). 



130 plants from Patagonia, presented 1902. 



Priestley (Sir WILLIAM OVEREND). [1829-1900] 



A collection of British Carices, with the parts of the inflorescence and 

 fruit carefully dissected and drawn, presented 1889. 



Pringle (CYRUS GUERNSEY). [1838- ] 



3,435 Mexican plants, purchased at various dates from 1886. 



Prior (RICHARD CHANDLER ALEXANDER). [1809-1902] 



994 plants from Styria, Dalmatia, and Italy, and a large number of 

 South African plants, presented 1868. 



Pritzel (ERNST). 



1,015 plants from West Australia, purchased 1901-2. 



Puccinelli (BENEDETTO). [1808-50] 

 588 Italian plants, purchased 1868. 



Pulteney (RICHARD). [1730-1801] 



Herbarium of British plants, purchased 1863. 



Rabenhorst (GOTTLOB LUDWIG). [1806-81] 



His published sets : " Algen Sachsens " and " Algen Europas," about 



2,600 specimens in 259 decades (1848-79) ; " Klotschii Herb. Mycolog. 

 Ed. II," 800 specimens in 8 fascicles (1855-58) ; " Fungi Europaei," 

 43 centuries (1859-79), continued by Winter, and subsequently by 

 Pazschke; "Cryptogamae vasculares Europaeae," 160 specimens in 

 5 fascicles (1858-72) ; " Bryotheca Europaea," 1,450 mosses in 29 fascicles 

 (1858-84), completed by Winter; "Hepaticae Europaeae," 66 decades 

 (1856-79), published by collaboration with Gottsche; "Lichenes 

 Europaei," 974 specimens in 36 fascicles (1855-79) ; " Characeen Euro- 

 pas," 121 specimens in 5 fascicles (1857-78), published by collaboration 

 with Al. Braun and Stizenberger ; " Diatomaceae exsicc. totius terrarum 

 orbis," 100 specimens (1871) ; " Lichenes Chinenses," 36 specimens (1873). 

 These were purchased at various dates from 1862. 



Ralfs (JOHN). [1807-90] 



" British Algae," 40 specimens published c. 1850 ; his microscope 

 preparations of algae, 3,137 slides, presented by his son in 1890 ; his 

 herbarium of cryptogams containing 1,968 specimens, purchased 1892. 



Ralph (THOMAS SHEARMAN). [1892?] 



167 plants from New Zealand, purchased 1854-59. 



Ramage (G. A.). 



172 plants from Brazil, purchased 1888 ; 485 plants from Dominica, 

 presented by the Council of the Royal Society. 



