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DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. 
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Cases 16, 17, and 18, which terminate the series of Wall Cases, are 
occupied by a collection of Clay Models of English Fungi, made by 
the late Mr. James Sowerby, while engaged in the publication of his 
work on that tribe of plants, and representing for the most part the 
identical subjects depicted in it. They are all named in conformity 
with the work, and are furnished with references to the plates in 
which the species are figured. The arrangement is that of the Rev. 
M.J. Berkeley in the "English Flora "of Sir William J. Hooker. 
On the upper and middle shelves of Case 16 are placed Models of 
Edible and Poisonous Fungi, made in Germany. 
The Table Cases are chiefly occupied with Sections of Woods. 
The first Table, on entering from the Eastern Doorway, lettered A, 
presents sections of Tree-Ferns, Palms, and other Monocotyledonous 
structures, Conifers, Cycade^:, and Wintered. The Ferns are 
placed in the Division A 1 ; the Palms commence in the same 
division, and are continued through the greater part of the next, 
A 2 ; and the other Monocotyledonous structures follow in the same 
division. On the opposite side of Table A, Divisions 3 and 4, are 
placed specimens of numerous Coniferous Woods ; and a few speci- 
mens of Cycade^e and Wintered complete the Division A 4. 
Four of the divisions of the next Table, B, are occupied by a series of 
Miscellaneous Woods, principally Climbers, and chiefly from Brazil. 
Among these attention may be particularly directed to the species of 
Clematis, to those of Cocculus and other Menisperme^:, and to the 
Malpighiaceous genera, Stigmaphyllon and Tetrapteris, in the 
division lettered B 1 ; to the species of Paullinia, Gouania, Legu- 
minos^e, and Myrtace^e, in B 2 ; to the parasitic genera Viscum and 
Myzodendrum, to Aspidosperma excelsum, Benth., to the species of 
Strychnos, to Bignontacej^ of various genera, to Cecropia,Pourouma, 
and Ficus, in B 3 ; and thence passing to the first division on the 
opposite side of the Table, B 4, to the species of Piper, of Pisonia, 
of Aristolochia, and several woods of curious structure, whose names 
are unknown, no corresponding specimens having been received along 
with them. The middle division on the outer side of this Table, B 5, 
exhibits Miscellaneous specimens, chiefly illustrative of diseases, 
wounds, or other injuries of trees ; of their reparation either in 
whole or in part; of the results of incisions made through the bark 
into the wood, &c, &c. The concluding division, B 6, contains a 
series of specimens of Cycade.e, in continuation of those exhibited 
in Table A 4, chiefly presented by James Yates, Esq., illustrating 
various species of Cycas, Macrozamta, Encephalartos, Zamia and 
Ceratozamia, among which may be particularly noticed a cone of 
Cycas revoluta terminating in a cone of foliaceous scales, a double- 
headed cone of Macrozamia spiralis, cones of Zamia Yotesl', Z. 
lingifolia, &c, &c. 
Table C contains specimens of Woods obtained from various parts 
of the world, and arranged as follows : — In the division C 1 are placed 
a series of Woods of Ceylon, arranged in alphabetical order, accord- 
ing to the Cingalese names, with the scientific names, when known, ap- 
