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greater view to the artistic effect than to their horticultural or 

 botanical use. 



No. 3. From Mrs. Isaac Clements, Mechanicsville, Saratoga 

 Co., New York, March 1st, 1856. A collection of native plants, of 

 about sixty species, probably collected at the above mentioned 

 locality, mounted on small sized paper. The specimens, except 

 that in most cases they are fragmentary, are quite good. It 

 appears that the Society awarded Mrs. Clements a Silver Medal for 

 this collection. 



No. 4. Three collections, made by Dennis Murray, of Roxbury, 

 a member of the Society and a frequent exhibitor of native plants 

 at its rooms, presented by his daughters, November 9, 18C4, after 

 his decease. 



A. One of flowering plants, collected chiefly near Boston, of 

 about one hundred and twenty- five species, mostly in good order, 

 mounted on paper smaller than the usual size, of a quality' too 

 thin to be serviceable. 



B. A collection of Vascular Cryptogams (Ferns, Equisetums, 

 Lycopods, and Selaginellas), about eighty species, and some dupli- 

 cates. These are froin America and Great Britain ; the American, 

 chiefly from New England and the Middle States. Many of the 

 species represented are quite rare, and the specimens are generally 

 good. They are not systematically arranged, are mounted on 

 paper above the usual size, and are adorned with various borders 

 of fancy and high colored paper, quite out of place in so excellent 

 a collection. 



C. A collection of grasses, comprising some sixty of our native 

 and introduced species. The specimens, which are remarkably fine, 

 are mounted on various colored papers, but in such a manner that 

 they might be easily transferred to a paper of proper quality and 

 size. Most of the species are named and the place of collection 

 given. 



No. 5. Donor and date of presentation unknown. A collec- 

 tion of about thirty native and garden species, mounted on some 

 twenty sheets ; the specimens are in fair condition. 



No. 6. From George E. Davenport, June 5th, 1875, the collec- 

 tion of American Ferns, which was properly noticed under the 

 above date in the Transactions of the Society. Mr. Davenport 

 has since then added some new species and improved others, and, 

 as stated at the time of presentation, this is one of the best and 

 most complete collections of American ferns extant. 



