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The specimens, which are commonly mere fragments, often serve 
to identify the species of the Flora Caroliniana, although they 
are not always labelled in accordance with that work. 
The collections of Pursh, which served as the basis of his 
Flora, America Septentrionalis, are in the possession of Mr. Lam- 
bert, and form a part of his immense herbarium. These, with a 
few specimens brought by Lewis and Clark from Oregon and the 
Rocky Mountains, a set of Nuttall’s collections on the Missouri, 
and also of Bradbury’s, so far as they are extant, with a small 
number from Fraser, Lyon, &c., compose the most important por- 
tion of this herbarium, so far as North American botany is con- 
cerned. ‘There is also a small Canadian collection made by 
Pursh, subsequently to the publication of his Flora, a considera- 
ble number of Menzies’s plants, and other minor contributions. 
To the general botanist, probably the fine herbarium of Pallas, 
and the splendid collection of Ruiz and Pavon, (both acquired by 
Mr. Lambert at a great expense, ) are of the highest interest; and 
they are by no means unimportant in their relations to North 
American botany, since the former comprises several species from 
the North West Coast, and numerous allied Siberian forms, while 
our Californian plants require, in some instances, to be compared 
with the Chilian and Peruvian plants of the latter. 
Besides the herbaria already mentioned, there are two others 
in London of more recent formation, which possess the highest 
interest as well to the general as to the American botanist, viz. 
that of Prof. Lindley, and of Mr. Bentham. Both comprise very 
Complete sets of the plants collected by Douglas in Oregon, Cali- 
fornia, and the Rocky Mountains, as well as those raised from 
seeds or bulbs, which he transmitted to England, of which a 
large portion have, from time to time, been published by these 
authors, Mr. Bentham’s herbarium is, probably, the richest and 
Most authentic collection in the world for Labiate, and is per- 
PS nearly unrivalled for Leguminose, Scrophularinee, and the 
other tribes to which he has devoted especial attention : it is also 
Particularly full and authentic in European plants. Prof. Lind- 
ley’s herbarium, which is very complete in every department, is 
Wholly unrivalled in Orchidaceous plants. 'The genus-covers are 
made of strong and smooth hardware paper, the names being 
written on a slip of white paper pasted on the lower corner. 
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This is an excellent plan, as covers of white paper in the herba- 
