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KEW HERBARIUM REPORT, 1882. 
heads not nearly so much condensed. Still I think it is an 
‘erratic form’ of that species. ..... It is difficult to say, without 
very close observation, what change may be effected (in this 
changeable genus !) by locality a and cee ie 49 broad-leaved forms 
uncertainty.” —-J. Backuovuss in litt. ad. Charles Baile 
Lemna minor Linn. — Tankerness, Orkney, March, 1882; on 
lected by W. Cowan. The only known station. Report rted 
occurring in “ditches,” by Dr. Gilbert Maccrab, certainly s- 
take; and marked ‘extremely doubtful’? by Robert Heddle and 
Duguid in their MS. list. Possibly inbetianesl. —W. Irvr 
ORTESCUE. 
REPORT OF THE oe eee OF +e ROYAL GARDENS, 
EW, FOR 188 
By Sr J. - Hooker, at 8.1., &c. 
rs, : 
Oxford Botanical Gardens, to “whieh it had been pee: by his 
relatives. It contains 271 species of plants, for the most part 
figured in Mr. Wilson Saunders’s ‘ Refugium Botanicum.’—8. The 
i Record Club has presented to Kew its herbarium of 
British plants, co ontaining 1840 species, and ne aoe specimens 
illustrating the local floras of the Britigh Islan: 
he following is a list of the other principal aba to the 
Herbarium during 1882 :— 
uropr. — Arnold, Dr. F.; Lichens (86). Brotherus, V. F. ; 
Finland Mosses (100, purchased). Cooke, Dr. M. C.; British 
Fungi (82); sundry do. (20). Groves, H.; Italian plants (145). 
Henriques, Dr. J. A.: : Portuguese plants (164). Hooker, Sir J. D.; 
Mosses, chiefly German n (182). Husnot, T.; French Mosses (50). 
Kanitz, Dr. A.; European plants (285). Kunze, J7; Fungi (100, 
purchased). Liacaita; C. C.; Italian plants (18). Lange, Professor; 
nish, &c., plants (68). Nicholson, G.; Roses, é&c. (9), Nylander, 
Dr.; ; Loj ka’s Lichens (382, purchased). Oliver, D.; British plants, 
a 
“* Tssued March, 1884, 
