Maps are placed in the cases, showing in red colour 

 the countries furnishing the products near which they 

 are placed. 



GUIDE TO MUSEUM No. I. 



The chief botanical features which characterise the 

 plants represented by their products or other specimens 

 in this Museum, are these ; — 1. In their early condition, 

 while yet enclosed in the seed, they nearly always have 

 two (or sometimes more) little opposite lobes or leaflets 

 (cotyledons : hence called Dicotyledons). 2. Those which 

 form a woody stem, increase in thickness by a ring of 

 new wood growing year by year on the outside of, and 

 continuous with, the old. 3. The parts of the flowers are 

 most frequently in fives or fours. 4. The small veins of 

 the leaves are, commonly, irregularly netted. 



The Collections occupy three Floors. The numbering 

 begins upon the Top Floor, in the cabinet (No. 1) 

 immediately round the corner to the left, on reaching 

 the head of the stairs, and is continued on the left hand 

 throughout the floor. The collections of the Middle and 

 Bottom Floors follow the same order. 



The collection of portraits of Botanists is partly hung 

 on wall spaces in this Museum. The nucleus of it was 

 formed by the late Sir W. J. Hooker, and after his death 

 was purchased by the Government. 



Top Floor. 



Ranunculus Order {Rammculaceae). A family 

 widely spread, especially in cool climates. Few species 

 have woody stems. Its general properties are acrid and 

 poisonous. The Buttercup and Larkspur are common 

 examples of the Order. 



No. 1. Inner bark of TRAVELLER'S JOY (Clematis 



Vitalba, L.), used in Switzerland for straining whey from 



curd. The slender stems, peeled, are used for basket 



work, and in France to bind faggots, and their tips are 



sometimes pickled. 



