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650 species collected 1849-51. (*) Each fascicle consists of 

 from ten to thirty sets, thus makintr it possible to distribute the 

 collections to a number of herbaria and subscribers. 



The following list of subscribers to '^ Flora Texa-aa Exsic- 

 cata/^ as shown by Gray's unpublished letters to Engelmann^ 

 was prepared by Blankinship, and deserves special mention 

 since it shows the very wide interest in Texas botany more than 

 sixty years ago (8), 



Alexander, Dr.; England. Kew Gardens; England. 



Bentham, Geo.; England. Lamson, Prof.; Canada, 



Boissier Herbarium; Geneva. Leman. 



British Museum; London, Lowell, Jno.; Cambridge, Mass. 



Braim, Alex.; BerHn. Oakes, Wm,; Ipswich, Mass, 



Buckley, S. B.; Texas, Olney, S. T.; Providence, R. I. 



Carey, S. T. ; Xew^ York. Saunders, Wm. ; England. 



Cleveland, Prof, P. ; Maine. Shuttleworth, R. J. ; England. 

 Diu^andj Elias. Smithsonian Institute ; "Wash. 



Engelmann, Geo. ; St. Louis. Stevens. 

 Fielding, H. B.; England, SuUivant, W. L.; Ohio, 



Gray, Asa; Cambridge, ]\rass, Thurber, George. 

 Greene, B. D.; Boston. Torrey, Jno.; New York. 



Harvey, Prof.; Dublin. Webb, Barker; France. 



Jardin des Plantes: Paris. 



The iniport'ince of Lindheimer's Avork is not generally ap- 

 preciated. In fact, prior to the publication of Part HI of 

 PJanfoe Lindhermerianae (8) Yevy little of this pioneer botanist 

 was known beyond his friends and colleagues, and even now no* 

 records of his contributions to the botany of Texas are avail- 

 able to the ii'eneral render. Though editor of the leading Ger- 



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man paper in Texas for more than twenty years, he never wrote 

 about himself nor his achievements, and praise received for 

 his labors from other publishers and editors was never repub-^ 

 lished in the columns of his paper. 



"While his p'reatest activity as a collector was during the pe- 

 riod frrm 1842 to 1852, Lindheimer did not give up his interest 

 in plants when, in the latter year, he assumed the management 

 and editorship of the *'Xeu Braunfelser Zeitungf.'^ For more- 



*PIantae Lindheimerianae. III. p. 124, 



