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NOTICE. 
Aaaty the opportunity is taken of thanking those persons who have 
rendered a service to botany in one or other of its branches by 
forwarding, to the author of the bulletins, specimens of the indigenous 
plants of their districts, as such have come into bloom; by these means 
our Flora is being gradually worked up, and a knowledge of our plants 
diffused. 
As fragmentary, imperfect specimens are often sent for deter- 
mination, one may suppose the senders are ignorant of what is 
tequired : the following definition is therefore given :— 
A botanic specimen is such a portion of a plant as may enable a 
botanist to determine its name, &c. Thus, of a tree or shrub, a 
shoot, say six or nine inches long, bearing leaves, flowers, and fruit, 
if possible, will be sufficient. Of herbs, when small, an entire plant 
should be sent, collected when in flower; of herbs of a large size, 
portion of the lower (radical) leaves, and also a portion of the top, 
in flower or seed. All specimens should represent the typical form— 
not an abnormal or irregular growth, except to show such growth. 
After gathering, place the specimen between sheets of paper (old 
newspaper), and put the whole under a slight pressure ; these papers 
should be changed for dry sheets every day for three or four days, 
when, if the specimens are not of a succulent nature, they will be in 
a fit state to forward by post, the cost of which will be 2d. per lb. 
from any part of the colony to Brisbane. 
F.M.B. 
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