DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. 165 



Department of Botany. 



During the past year 22,200 specimens, consisting of 

 10,900 Flowering Plants, 368 Vascular Cryptogams, 2,079 

 Mosses, 254 Hepatics, 8,612 Lichens, 836 Algse, and 4,151 

 Fungi, have been mounter! and incorporated with the 

 Herbarium. 



Mr. Baker has incorporated with the General Herbarium 

 various collections of Polygalacese, Caryophyllacese, Tropical 

 African Polypetalee, and a portion of Dr. Hassler's recently 

 acquired collection from Paraguay. The order Lythraceae 

 and the genera Oxytropis, Melilotus, Cardamine, Hippocratea, 

 and Epilobium have been rearranged in accordance with 

 recent monographs. The later consignments of Polypetalse, 

 collected on the Uganda Boundary Commission by Dr. Bag- 

 shawe, have l^een determined, and a report has been prepared 

 for publication. The Polypetalse of several smaller collections 

 have been determined, and a report on those found by Mr. 

 F. Eyles in Rhodesia will shortly be published. 



Mr. Britten has completed the volume dealing with the 

 Australian plants collected during Cook's First Voyage, and 

 has published an account of Banks's Newfoundland plants 

 contained in the Herbarium and of the Madeiran plants 

 enumerated by the earlier collectors and preserved in the 

 Herbarium. He has also prepared the general account of 

 the Herbarium prefixed to the detailed enumeration of its 

 contents, and has revised the whole for publication. He has 

 incorporated numerous additions to the British Herbarium 

 and to the orders Gentianacese, Labiates, Solanacese, and 

 Asclepiadacese ; and has revised the African species of the 

 last-named order. He has also worked at the Sloane 

 Herbarium and at African species of Ficus ; he has super- 

 intended the acquisition of books, and has continued to help 

 in the preparation of the botanical portion of the Catalogue 

 of the General Library ; he has also revised the labels for 

 the public gallery. Mr. Britten has, during Mr. Murray's 

 absence, directed and supervised the work in the Department. 



Dr. Rendle has incorporated with the General Herbarium 

 various collections of Monocotyledons and Apetalous Dico- 

 tyledons. He has also named and incorporated collections of 

 Grasses from Yunnan and Formosa by Henry, from Tropical 

 South Africa by Rand, Kassner, and others, the Monocotyle- 

 dons contained in collections from the Nyika Plateau by 

 Henderson, and from Angola by Gossweiler. He has com- 

 pleted a critical revision of the East Asiatic Grasses, in 

 connection with his monograph of the Chinese Grasses ; has 

 prepared and published a systematic account of Mr. H. H. 

 Prichard's collections in Patagonia, and has prepared for 

 publication an account of the Monocotyledons in Dr. Bag- 

 shawe's collection, and of the Monocotyledons and Apetalous 

 Dicotyledons in a small collection from Rhodesia by Eyles. 



