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180 REPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY, BRITISH MUSEUM. 
sade Sine of white and faint red. I looked paganiryst for anything in 
erastium way like pumilum, but was obliged to refer 
jnieeed ndrum. 1 found <Arenaria (Aisine) tenuifolia, but could 
nat detect the form Agiesee, P ut I did not go to its station on ‘* Red- 
ruch Heath.”—A. Brey 
Prants or Gramorcansuire.—I collected a few days ago examples 
of Draba aiaatio, Hutchinsia petrea, and Cochlearia danica on — near 
Worm’s Head, Gower, Glamorganshire, and thinking you 
like these specimens, enclose them . Glamorgan i is left blank i a3 as Topo- 
graphical Botany ” for Cochlearia — although I saw it in some 
plenty in several places along the coast. I believe the Hidshinina 
is not often collected in S. Wales. aiaaa, Bruaes FLower. 
CHEMILLA CONJUNCTA, Bab —Asi it has been doubted if Mr. A. O. 
directions to the place on record. I copy from my herbarium a note 
in his hand. ‘ The exact station is about 300 feet from the base of 
the Glen Dole side of Craig Rennet, Clova, on the left-hand side of the 
about 8 or 10 feet square. Aug. 1853.—A4.0O Black.’ The speci- 
mens are fine, and have, as I think, a few minute bits of mica sticking 
1S 
Sannox, Arran, 1832.” They are, I fully believe, the true plant. 
No other botanist has found it there. or at seh but it well deserves 
a careful search in both places.—C. C. Banryer 
€rtracts and Abstracts. 
OFFICIAL REPORT FOR 1876 OF THE DEPARTMENT OF 
BOTANY IN THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 
By W. Canrvuruers, F.R.S. 
Tue work of incorporating plants in the General Herbarium has 
been actively carried ee cabinet the past year. The large additions 
ms. The whole Herbarium ee consent been 
, and 2 arth ‘tion 
7 begins td _ Leguminose, Rosacee, ul cae hepeiies 
onvolvulacea, Crrephularinee, Labiate , Euphorbiacee, Chenopodiaceae, 
hidea, aminee, 
and 
The following collections have been either entirely or in part 
