120 THE JOURNAL OF BOTANY. 
bably na in making a species of it, as it is difficult otherwise to 
now where to place it. It is —— spread in Europe, and has 
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plant, in Cualochan, which may be the var. vogesiaca C. Mill., but 
I have not seen an authentic specimen of this variety. 
hen writing this note, I have received the current number of 
e Revue Bryologique, No. 1 (1905), in which is described a new 
species of Scapania by Dr. Arnell, under the name Martinellia obliqua. 
It is stated to be allied to S. paiudosa and S, irrigua 
THE NATIONAL HERBARIUM. 
[THE following account of the earlier collections preserved in the 
National Herbarium was written by Mr. Britten for the ‘‘ History 
of the Collections contained i in the Natural History Departments of 
the British Museum”’ (reviewed in this Journal for 1904, p. 556), 
and is prefixed to the alphabetical list of Pre ae prepared by 
him for the same work. It is reprinted here in the belief that it 
will be interesting to a large number of readers to whom the detailed 
pe ~~ will not be accessible.—Ep. Journ. Bor.] 
I.—Generat SxKetcu. 
_ The Saimin of Botany, originally styled the Banksian 
Department, was established for the reception of the herbarium 
of Sir Joseph Banks, who had, shortly before his death in 1820, 
bequeathed it to Robert Brown, at whose demise it was to become 
ba ea a of the oe Museum : with Brown’s eigen _the 
mig 
e of the pr esses contains 67 sais spicata, chiefly parts of 
ion, fronds, and sections of trunks of palms. A cabinet 
of four cubes contains several partial [special] collections, beigiies: 
being the authentic materials of important botanical works, a re kept 
separate, particularly Clifford’s herbarium, the principal inthokity 
