204 ACCOUNTS, ETC., OF THE BRITISH MUSEUJU. 



Department of Botany. 

 I. — Arrangement and Conservation. 



During the past year 29,850 specimens have been incor- 

 porated with the Herbarium. This number includes 21,750 

 Flowering Plants, 8 Vascular Cryptogams, 4,7-^8 Mosses, 

 443 Hepatics, 1,779 Lichens, 667 Algse, and 455 Fungi. 



Floiuering Plants. — Collections have been mounted and 

 incorporated wholly or in part as follows : — Small British 

 collections from various donors and part of the herbarium of 

 the late Thomas Hilton ; Asia Minor (Siehe, Bornmiiller) ; 

 Japan (Faurie, Milne) ; China (Wilson) ; Manchuria (Stuart) ; 

 Malaya (Ridley; : Philippine Islands (Elmer) ; Nigeiia (Talbot) ; 

 Cameroons (Zenker) ; Liberia (Bunting) ; Angola (Gossweiler) ; 

 Mexico (Purpus) ; West Indies (Britton, Broadway, Metcalfe) ; 

 Sandwich Islands (Faurie). 



Outstanding specimens from different collectors have been 

 incorporated in various families, especially Kanunculacese, 

 Leguminosse, Umbelliferse, Caprifoliacese, Rubiaceae, Compositas, 

 Asclepiadacese, Boraginacepe, Oyperacese, and Graminese. 



Progress has been made with the selection, determination, 

 and incorporation of the early Australian collections ; also with 

 the separation from the General Herbarium of the European 

 material (families Geraniacese to Rosacese) and its rearrange- 

 ment according to Nyman's " (Conspectus Florae Europse " ; 

 outstanding specimens have been incorporated in the families 

 dealt with. 



'Work of revision and rearrangement has been done also 

 in the families Papaveracete, Menispermaceae, Simarubeae, 

 Rubiaceae, and others, and in the genera Aconitum, Del- 

 'phinium, Crotalaria, Dicha'petalurii, Giss'^is, Rhoicissus, 

 Salacia, Senecio, Sabicea, Tarenna, Flagenium, ISymphytum, 

 Ficus, and others, and as regards British species, Viola, Rosa, 

 Plantago, Atriplex, Polygonurti, Betula. 



A number of early collections from South America and 

 elsewhere have been sorted preparatory to incorporation. 

 Duplicate specimens from the collections of Hartweg (Mexico), 

 Gardner (Brazil), Schomburgk (British Guiana), Talbot 

 (Nigeria), and others have been arranged in sets for 

 distribution. 



Ferns. — Additions to the genus Asplenium from numerous 

 collectors have been revised or determined and arranged for 

 incorporation ; also collections from North Borneo, Nigeria, 

 and South America. 



Bryophyta. — A large portion of Wilson's Moss Herbarium, 

 comprising the types and material treated in the volumes of 

 Hooker's " Flora Antarctica '' has been revised and incor- 

 porated. The cleistocarpous Mosses of the old herbarium of 

 Bobert Brown have been incorporated. A large series of 



