Notices of European Herbaria. IT 



figured in Schkuhr's work, and is therefore interesting to the 

 lovers of that large and difficult genus. The American speci- 

 mens were mostly derived from Willdenow, who obtained the 

 greater portion from Muhlenberg. 



The royal Prussian herbarium is deposited at Schoneberg, (a 

 little village in the environs of Berlin,) opposite the royal botanic 

 garden, and in the garden of the Horticultural Society. It oc- 

 cupies a very convenient building erected for its reception, and is 

 under the superintendence of Dr. Klotzsch, a very zealous and 

 promising botanist. It comprises three separate herbaria, viz. 

 the general herbarium, the herbarium of Willdenow, and the 

 Brazilian herbarium of Sello. The principal contributions of the 

 plants of this country to the general herbarium, garden specimens 

 excepted, consist of the collections of the late Mr. Beyrich, who 

 died in Western Arkansas while accompanying Col. Dodge's dra- 

 goon expedition, and a collection of the plants of Missouri and 

 Arkansas, by Dr. Engelmann, now of St. Louis ; to which a fine 

 selection of North American plants, recently presented by Sir 

 William Hooker, has been added. The botanical collections 

 made by Chamisso, who accompanied RomanzofF in his voyage 

 round the world, also enrich this herbarium ; many are from the 

 coast of Russian America and from California ; and they have 

 mostly been published conjointly by the late Yon Chamisso and 

 Prof. Schlechtendal in the LinncBa, edited by the latter. 



The late Prof. Willdenow enjoyed for many years the corre- 

 spondence of Muhlenberg, from whom he received the greater 

 part of his North American specimens, a considerable portion of 

 which are authentic for the North American plants of his edition 

 of the Species Plantariim. In addition to these, we find in his 

 herbarium many of Michaux's plants, communicated by Desfon- 

 taines, several from the German collector, Kinn, and perhaps all 

 the American species described by Willdenow from the Berlin 

 garden. It also comprises a portion of the herbarium of Pallas, 

 the Siberian plants of Stephen, and a tolerable set of Humboldt's 

 plants. This herbarium is in good preservation, and is kept in 

 perfect order and extreme neatness. As left by Willdenow, the 

 specimens were loose in the covers, into which additional speci- 

 mens had sometimes been thrown, and the labels often mixed, so 

 that much caution is requisite to ascertain which are really au- 

 thentic for the Willdenovian species. To prevent farther sources 



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