THE SCHOOL OF FORESTRY IN THE ESCURIAL. 3*7 



Under the head of Applied Botany, or botany in its 

 connection with the studies and subsequent work of the 

 forester, there are included in the prescribed programme of 

 the- class 1. Definitions and general ideas in regard to 

 organised bodies. 2. Characteristics of plants or vege- 

 tables, orgauography and morphology. 3. Anatomy, 

 physiology, and nosology of plants. 4. Methodology, 

 classification in general, artificial systems of classification. 

 5. Natural classification 6. General description of the 

 principal families of plants, with a special and detailed 

 description of the woody plants of the flora of Spain. 7. 

 Geographical botanical association of vegetables, affinities 

 and analogies determining their distribution. 8. Agents 

 influencing the distribution of plants. 9. Distribution of 

 trees and shrubs in the forests of Spain. 



In the Cabinet of Botany, in the museum, there were 

 contained, according to Senor Castel in 1877, the 

 herbarium of the Senores Boutelou, presented to the 

 school by Dona Maria Soldevilla de Boutelou, in the year 

 1848. In this herbarium there are 9244 species of plants 

 from different countries, a great proportion of them being 

 from America; another European herbarium of 3000 

 species, the greater part of them being French, but the 

 collection being increased from day to day, chiefly by the 

 addition of Spanish plants ; and a herbarium of 500 species 

 uf Spanish lignous plants prepared by the ' Comision de la 

 Flora Foresta ' ; * a herbarium composed of plants found in 

 the vicinity of the Escurial, in which are more than 800 

 species of phanerogams ; a collection of 120 species of ferns 

 from the Phillipines, presented by the Ilmo Senor D. 

 Isidro Sainz de Baranda ; various collections prepared by 

 Professor Rabenhorst, comprising in all 5030 species of 

 cryptogams, distributed into the following groups: vascular 



Amongst works illustrative of the natural history of forest trees and other plants, 

 a prominent place must be assigned to the works prepared by the ' Comision de la 

 Flora Foresta,' by which was presented to the museum of the school this herbarium of 

 iOO species of lignous plants. Of this, descriptive of the collection of specimens, and 

 of similar works from the Philippines, a n account will afterwards be given. These 

 are made mention of here as supplying facilities for the study of the specimens 

 exljibtted. 



