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Department of Botany. 



I. — Arrangement and Conservation. 



During; the past year 26,375 specimens have been incor- 

 porated with the Herbarium. This number includes 20,550 

 Flowering Plants, 7 Vascular Cryptogams, 118 Mosses, 

 103 Hepatics, 191 Lichens, 112 Algse, and 5,294 Fungi. 



Floivering Plants. — Collections have been mounted and 

 incorporated wholly or in part as follows : — Small British 

 collections from various donors, including Revs. E. S. Marshall 

 and H. J. Kiddelsdell, Messrs. G. C. Druce and W. A. Davis, 

 and Major A. H. Wolley-Dod ; Europe, Herb. Normale, Dbrfler ; 

 European Rubi (Sudre) ; Flora Italica (Fiori and Beguinot) ; 

 Turkestan (Adiassewick) ; Persia (Strauss) ; China (Schindler) ; 

 Siam (Hosseus) ; Malaya (Ridley; ; Elmer (Philippine Islands) ; 

 Libyan Desert (Harding King) ; Angola (Gossweiler) ; Nigeiia 

 and Cameroons (Talbot, MacLeod, Kitson) ; Liberia (Bunting) ; 

 Rhodesia and Congo (Kassner, Chubb) and other Tropical 

 African collections ; South Africa (Rudatis, Pegler, Schlechter) ; 

 S. Domingo (Tiirckheim) ; Cuba (Shafer) ; Mexico (Purpusj ; 

 Bolivia (Conway Expedition) ; Paraguay (Fiebrig) ; Sandwich 

 Islands (Faurie). Progress has been made with the selection, 

 determination and incorporation of the earl}^ Australian col- 

 lections ; and the unincorporated extra-European .specimens of 

 a number of families of Dicotyledons have been mounted and 

 incorporated. The European material of the early families of 

 Dicotyledons has been separated from the General Herbarium 

 and rearranged according to Nyman's " Conspectus Florae 

 Europseae." Work of revision and rearrangement has been done 

 also m the following families : Verbenacese, Rubiacete, Pipera- 

 cese, Urticacese, and in the genersb Lupinus, Tephrosia, Lobelia, 

 ■JasminuTn, Pentste7)%on, Polygonum (British species) and 

 others. 



Ferns. — The series of plates has been rearranged ; 

 some small collections from Liberia (Bunting), New Zealand 

 (Henley) and Borneo (Gibbs) have been determined, and critical 

 work has been done on various genera and species. 



Bryophyta. — A collection of Mosses from India and collec- 

 tions of Hepatics from South America and New Zealand have 

 been incorporated. Small collections have been determined 

 from Britain, S. America, Tahiti and New Zealand. Work of 

 revision has been done on various genera. 



Lichens. — Progress has been made with the incorporation 

 of British Lichens. The revision of the Pyrenocarpei has been 

 completed. 



Algce. — Collections have been determined and in part incor- 

 porated from South Africa (Tyson), the Indian Ocean, Singa- 

 pore (Ridley), China, N.W. America and the Kermadec Islands 

 (Oliver). Work of revision and rearrangement has been done 



