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Licheiis. — Large collections of these plants, acquired from 

 Crombie and Phillips, have undergone a preliminary sorting 

 and labelling and, .together with the herbaria of Davies, 

 Piggot, and others, are gradually being examined and incor- 

 porated in the British series. Special attention has been 

 given to the revision and re-arrangement of the large genus 

 Lecidea. The pamphlets and MSS. received with the Crombie 

 collection have been put in order. The original drawings 

 and plates of Sowerby's English Botany have been re-arranged. 

 The extra-British lichens of the Phillips collection have been 

 put in order preparatory to incorporation. 



Exhibition Series. — Representations of the Schizomycetes 

 and Characese have been added to the general systematic series, 

 the Cycads and Bennettitese have been in part re-arranged, 

 and various specimens have been added in different groups, 

 including a fine series of fruits of Lodoicea sechellarurri 

 (Double Coco-nut), stems of a Tree-fern illustrating structure, 

 and a fine specimen of a new species of Algae, Leasonio. grandi- 

 folia, from the coast of Victoria-land in the Antarctic circle. 

 A series of British Characese has been added to the exhibi- 

 tion of British plants, and progress has been made with the 

 exhibition of a series of British Lichens, and in the selection 

 of material for an exhibition of British Hepatics ; specimens 

 with drawings of a British hybrid Ophrys have been exhibited. 

 A guide to the case illustrating the History of Classification 

 has been prepared and printed, and a Catalogue of the British 

 Seed-plants has been prepared. Considerable progress has 

 been made in the exhibition illustrating British trees in the 

 Central Hall ; and some time has been devoted to the com- 

 pletion of the case illustrating the flower in the group 

 Dicotyledons. A series of historical events with dates has 

 been painted on the large section of the " Big Tree " {Sequoia 

 gigantea). 



II. — Publications. 



The following publications relating to the collections and 

 work of the Department have appeared : — 



Guide to Books and Portraits illustrating the History of 

 Plant Classification exhibited in the Department of Botany. 

 By Dr. Rendle. Official publication. 



New Monocotyledons from China and . Tibet. By 

 Dr. Rendle. (Journal of Botany.) 



Widdringtonia in South Tropical Africa. By Dr. Rendle. 

 (Journal of Botany.) 



A new Celtis from Tropical Africa. By Dr. Rendle . 

 (Journal of Botany.) 



