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of Monopetalous plants, and revised the nomenclature, bring- 

 ing it into harmony with that employed in the Herbarium ; 

 and he has superintended the continuation of the catalogue 

 of the Departmental Library. 



Mr. A. B. Rendle has revised the following genera : Lisso- 

 chilus, Eulophia, Disa, Aristea, Xerophyta, Livistona, 

 Cyperus, Eleocharis, Haojoechloa, Melinis, Ephedra, Podo- 

 carpus and Widdringtonia, and has incorporated many 

 species belonging to these genera. He has added to the 

 Herbarium large collections of Gymnosperms and Monocoty- 

 ledons from China and the Malayan Peninsula, Tropical and 

 Southern Africa, and Bolivia and Paraguay. 



He has determined the Gymnosperms and Monocotyledons, 

 and with Mr. Baker the Apetalce collected by Whyte on 

 Mount Milanji, and described the new species. 



Mr. Rendle has revised and corrected the nomenclature in 

 accordance with that employed in the Herbarium of the large 

 collection of prints and drawings of Apetalous plants ; and 

 has arranged the specimens, and prepared the labels illus- 

 trating the various forms of the leaves of Dicotyledonous 

 plants in the Hall. 



Mr. Antony Gepp has incorporated with the General 

 Herbarium a very complete set of the Indian Mosses collected 

 by Hooker and Thomson which formed part of the collections 

 of Wilson, and in addition more than 7,000 specimens of 

 Mosses, Hepatics and Lichens have been arranged, named 

 and incorporated, including the South American Hepatics of 

 Spruce, the Mosses of Swan River collected by Drumrdond, 

 and of the Antarctic voyage from Wilson's Herbarium, accom- 

 panied with his original drawings and manuscript observa- 

 tions, and the Brazil Lichens of Wainio. A considerable 

 portion of the Hepatics has been revised and determined. 

 Mr. Gepp has arranged and named collections of Mosses from 

 the islands of St. Vincent and Dominica, from Nyassa Land 

 and from Australia, and the fragments of mosses preserved in 

 the post tertiary deposits of Britain. 



Mr. George Murray has arranged, named and incorporated 

 with the Herbarium nearly 5,000 Fungi, chiefly Hymeno- 

 mycetes and Gasteromycetes. Progress has been made in 

 re-arranging the collection of Algse according to the recent 

 revision of the group, and nearly 8,000 specimens have been 

 incorporated with the Herbarium, chiefly of the Chlorophyceod 

 of the general collection, but including also a considerable 

 number of additions to the British Herbarium. Collections 

 from Australia and the Cape of Good Hope have been in- 

 corporated. The microscopic preparations of Algge have been 

 examined and re-arranged. The first part of a book of studies 



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