HITCHCOCK AND CHASE — NORTH AMERICAN PANICUM. 3 



Brussels. The herbarium of the Jardin Botanique de l'fitat 

 contains some of "Fournier's t} T pes, especially those based on the 

 collection of Galeotti from Mexico. 



Copenhagen. The herbarium is at the Universitets Botaniska 

 Have, or Botanical Garden of the University. Of especial importance 

 is the large collection of Liebmann plants from Mexico. 



Florence. At the herbarium of the Orto Botanico are many types 

 of Poiret in the Desfontaines Herbarium. There are also many 

 duplicate types of Desvaux and Lamarck and a good collection of 

 Bosc's Carolina plants. 



Geneva. There are three large herbaria here. The Conserva- 

 toire et Jardin Botaniques contain the Delessert Herbarium. The 

 De Candolle Herbarium, in the city of Geneva, and the herbarium of 

 William Barbey, known as the Boissier Herbarium, at Chambesy, a 

 suburb, are both private. There is also a smaller herbarium at the 

 Institut de Botanique de l'Universite. 



Gottingen. Of chief interest to American botanists is the Grise- 

 bach Herbarium, at the Botanischer Garten der Universitat. 



Halle. Prof. Carl Mez has been engaged for several years upon a 

 revision of the Paniceae for Engler's Pflanzenreich. He has bor- 

 rowed the grasses of this group from several of the larger European 

 herbaria. These collections were examined at Halle through the 

 courtesy of Doctor Mez. 



London. The rich collections of this city are grouped at three 

 places. The largest collection is at the Royal Botanic Gardens at 

 Kew, a suburb of London. This contains many types of species 

 described by Pursh. The herbarium of the British Museum of 

 Natural History, at South Kensington, contains, aside from the 

 general collection in which is the Gronovius Herbarium and many 

 authentic specimens from Raddi, Rudge, and others, certain segre- 

 gated herbaria, two of which are the Sloane Herbarium and a small 

 collection of Walter's plants. The Linnsean Herbarium is at the 

 rooms of the Linnsean Society of London. 



Madrid. The herbarium at the Jardin Botanico contains the types 

 of Cavanilles and Lagasca. 



Munich. The herbarium at the Konigliches Botanisches Museum 

 contains the collections of Martius from Brazil, the grasses of which 

 were described by Nees von Esenbeck in his Agrostographia Brasil- 

 iensis and by Doell in Martius' s Flora Brasiliensis. There are also 

 duplicates from Swartz and Lagasca. 



Padua. At the Orto Botanico is an important collection made 

 by.Bosc in Carolina. These plants were obtained mostly in the 

 vicinity of Charleston, South Carolina, and Wilmington, North 

 Carolina. 



oLasegue, Musee Botanique de Delessert 201. 1845. 



