3© ACCOUNTS, ESTIMATES, &C. OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM. 



Department of Botany. 



The principal business of the department during the year 1864 has consisted — 



In the naming, arranging, and laying into the General Herbarium of a large Collection 

 of Plants of New Holland, formed by Dr. Ferdinand Miiller; of a Collection of Plants of 

 New Caledonia, formed by Mr. M'Gillivray ; of extensive Collections of West African 

 Plants, formed by Peirottet, Le Prieur, Heiidelot, and others; of Plants of Madagascar, 

 collected bv Forbes, Hiisenberg, and Boivin ; ot further poitions of the American Her- 

 barium of ihe late Professor Nuttall, and of the Philippine Collection of Mr. Cuming; of 

 numerous specimens of Lpguminn^(2 and FiperacecB, from various quarters ; of Ceylon Ferns, 

 from Mr. Tliuaites, Bornean Ferns, from Mr. Wallace, and Cuban Ferns, from Mr. 

 Charles Wright; of a continuation of M. Billot's " Flora GaUise et Germanise exsiccata;" 

 of M. Rossmassler's Collection of Spanish Plants; of the Oaks of M. Kotscliy's Eastern Col- 

 lection; of Anderson's Scandinavian Willows, Schuliz's Hieracia am.! Wirtgen's Menthae: 



In I he re-arrangement of the Families of Palmce, BalanophorecE, Menisper niece, Ara/ia- 

 cea, Latirinecs, Begoniacea, Aristolochiea, and of the Ferns with naked sori, with numerous 

 additions to each, and also of a portion of the Collections in the large outer room : 



In the examination and partial arrangement of the extensive Collections of European 

 Plants lately received from Messrs. Bnurgeau, Reithenbacli, and Rabenhorst, of 

 M. Forcade's Plants of the Pyrenees, of Zollinger's Plants of Java, and of Ralph's Plants 

 of New Zealand : 



In the selection of an extensive set of Plants of Panama from the Collections of Mr. 

 Sutton Hayes, and of Californ.an Plants from the Herbarium of Mr. Gruber: 



In the re-arrangement of the British Fungi, with large additions, and in adding to the 

 British Herbarium Mr. Woods's Collection ot Roses, an extensive series of Hieracia, and 

 numerous other critical plants from various localities, a large number of Cryptogamous 

 Plants from the Collections of Forster, liorrer, and Carrington, and of Phsenogamous 

 Plants, presented by the Rev. W. W. Nevvbould : 



And in the continued examination of the volumes of the Sloanean Herbarium. 



The principal additions which have been made to the department during the same period 

 consist of — 



Upwards of 2,000 specimens of Mosses, from various localities, chiefly British, forming 

 the Herbarium of Mr. A. 0. Black. 



450 species of British Fungi, from the Collection of Mr, Cooke. 



270 species of Cryptogamous Plants, chiefly Irish, from the Collection of Mr. Carrington. 

 21 H species of British and Foreign F'ungi, presented by C. E. Broome, Esq. 

 17 species of Plants from .lersey, presented by W. Griffiths, Esq. 

 3,000 species, forming- 64 livraisons of Pesmaziere's " Plantes Cryptogames de France." 

 100 species from tlie French Maiitime Alps, collected by M. F. Bourgeau. 

 672 species of Plants of the Pyrenees, collected by M. Forcade. 

 303 species of Plants of Spain, collected by M. E. Bourgeau. 



79 species of l^lants of Spain and Algeria, collected by M. E. Bourgeau. 

 665 specimens of Lichens, collected in the neighbourhood of Duomo d'Ossola, presented 

 by Professor Gagliardi. 



500 Species of Plants, forming livraisons 12-22 of the "Erbario Crittogamico Italiano." 

 100 species of Plants, foiming two fasciculi of Van Heurck's Plants of Belgium. 

 500 species of Plants, forming five centuries of Reichenbach's " Flora Germanise 

 Exsiccata." 



200 species of Plants of the Tyrol. 



178 species of Plants of various parts of Eurofie, collected by M. E. Bourgeau. 

 20 species oi Hepatica, forming parts 29, 30 of Rabenhorst's '* Hepaticse Europeae." 

 50 species of CUaracea, forming parts 1, 2 of Rabenhorst's " Characese EuropeaB." 

 70 species of Alga, forming parts 159-165 of Rabenhorst's " Algae Europeae." 

 75 species of Lichens, forming parts 24-26 of Rabenhorst's " Lichenes Europei." 

 550 species of Plants of Palestine, collected by Mr. Lowne. 

 129 species of Plants of Syria and Armenia, from M. E. Bourgeau. 

 232 species of Plants of Syria and Cyprus, collected by M. Kotschy. 

 700 species of Plants of the Rocky Mountains of North America, collected by Messrs. Hall, 

 Harbour, and Parry. 



A set of the Mosses of Columbia, collected by Mr. D. Douglas. 

 81 species of Plants of California, collected by Mr. Gruber. 

 1,102 species of Plants of Panama, collected by Mr, Sutton Hayes. 

 330 species of Ferns and Mosses of Cuba, collected by Mr. Chailes Wright. 

 209 species of Lichens from Cuba, collected by Mr. Charles Wright. 

 40 species of Australian Algae. 



34 Microscopic Slides of ZJiaZomoccffi, eight of which were presented by J. Staunton, Esq. 

 87 sets of Palm Fruits and Seeds, from various quarters. 

 A copy of Griffith's Palms of British India, presented by C. W. Downing, Esq, 



John J. Bennett, 



