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selection, preparation, and labelling of the Hepaties, to com- 

 plete the exhibition of Muscineoi. 



Mr, George Murray has continued the work of rearranging 

 the collection of Fungi, and completed the extensive series 

 of Discomycetes and Pyrenoiiiycetes, involving the remounting 

 and incorporation of more than 4,000 specimens. He has re- 

 arranged the Green Algce, nearly completing the work, and 

 remounted and incorporated nearly 8,000 specimens of Algce, 

 mostly Chloroj)hyceai. Small collections from Australia, 

 South Africa, and the Indian Ocean have been incorporated 

 in the Herbarium, and new species of SipUoneoi and Phaco- 

 phycece have been described. The Algce of Ravenel's Her- 

 bariujn have been arranged, and many of them renamed. 



The principal additions to the Herbarium during the year 

 have been (1) the study set of the plants of New Granada 

 formed by the late M. J. J. Triana, consisting of the whole of 

 the plants, so far as collected by himself, which have been 

 described in his works, and in his unfinished " Prodromus 

 Florae Novae Granatensis ;" the collection consists of over 

 8,000 specimens belonging to 4,490 species of a flora very im- 

 perfectly represented in the Herbarium ; (2) the collections 

 made by Aug. Borchers in Atacama, in Northern Chili, con- 

 sisting of 1,100 specimens determined by Professor Philippi; 

 (3) the extensive collection of North American Cryptogams 

 formed by the late Mr. Ravenel, consisting of more than 14,5.50 

 specimens, and including all the species which were described 

 from his materials by Berkeley and others. 



The additions to the collection by presentation during the 

 year have consisted of 2,369 Indian plants from C. B. Clarke, 

 Esq., F.R.s. ; 595 Indian plants from Dr. George King, f.r.s. ; 775 

 Malayan plants from H. N. Ridley, Esq. ; 200 Malayan plants 

 from C. Curtis, Esq. ; 120 Indian plants from J. F. Duthie, Esq. ; 

 420 plants from Gwalior, from C. Maries, Esq. ; 22 plants 

 from China, from the Kev. G. J. Maclagan ; 160 ferns from 

 St. Vincent's, and a collection of ferns from the Island of 

 Grenada, from the West Indies Exploration Committee of the 

 Royal Society; 100 South African plants from Professor Macoun 

 and H. Bolus, Esq. ; 343 Australian plants from Baron Fer- 

 dinand von Mueller; four plants from the Tonga Islands by 

 R. B. Leefe, Esq. ; 241 Canadian plants by Professor Macoun ; 

 specimens of American Malvaceae by J. N. Rose and B, L. Robin- 

 son, Esqs. ; 10 species of Jamaican fruits from W. Fawcett, 

 Esq. ; and specimens of cultivated orchids from H. J. Veitch, 

 Esq., and Mrs. Wolstenholme. 



A small collection of 60 species of Algae presented by Professor 

 Flahault is of special interest,as they are types of the ''Revision 

 des Nostocacees heterocystees ;" by MM. Bornet and Flahault. 

 Among other presents of cellular plants are 35 species from 



0.108. Ceylon, 



