JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. IX. July, 1908. No. 103. 
THE COLLECTIONS OF ALGAE. 
Accounts of the collections of the fungi and of the mosses and 
hepatics, in the possession of the New York Botanical Garden, 
have already been published in the present volume of the Jour- 
NAL. A description of ‘The Museum Exhibit of Seaweeds,” by 
the present writer, appeared in the JournaL for March, 1904, 
but since that time there have been considerable additions to the 
collections of the seaweeds and their fresh-water relatives, in both 
museum and herbarium, so that some further account of them is 
perhaps now justifiable. 
As is the case with the fungi and mosses, the herbarium of 
Columbia University, deposited with the Garden in accordance 
with the terms of an agreement made in 1896, furnishes the 
nucleus of the collections of algae at the Garden, although this 
original element is now largely overshadowed by the accessions 
made on the part of the Garden since the merging of the two 
institutions. The collections of algae, however, have never re- 
ceived any increment comparable in magnitude and historical im- 
portance with that of the fungi through the purchase of the Ellis 
collection or that of the mosses and Hepaticae through the pur- 
chase of the Mitten herbarium. Nevertheless, the collections in 
this department have been rather notably increased during the 
past decade by the purchase or gift of several herbaria, by ex- 
change with various collectors and institutions, and by special 
expeditions sent out by the Garden to Bermuda, Florida, the 
West Indies, Nova Scotia, and Newfoundland. 
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