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DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY. 
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The Table Cases are chiefly occupied with Sections of Woods. 
The first Table, on entering from the Eastern Doorway, lettered A, 
presents sections of Teee-Ferns, Palms, and other Moxocottledonous 
structures, Conifee^, CYCADEis, and Winteee.e. The Feens 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 Conifeeous Woods ; and a few speci- 
mens of CYCADEiE and Wintere-E 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 MENisPERMEiE, and to the 
Malpighiaceous genera, Stigmaphyllon and Teteapteeis, in the 
division lettered B 1 ; to the species of Paullinia, Gouania, Legu- 
MiNOs.E, and Myetace.e, in B 2 ; to the parasitic genera Viscu^^e and 
Myzodendrum, to Aspidospeema excelsum, Benth., to the species of 
Steychnos, to Bignoniace^e of various genera, to Ceceopia,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 Aeistolochta, 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, among w-hich may be particularly 
noticed a remarkable wood from the Moluccas, sent under the name of 
Nutmeg- Yvood, but probably belonging to the family of Menispeeme^ ; 
a fine specimen of the Lace-Baek. (Lagetta linteaeta, Jiiss.); a 
section oi a trunk, probably Leguminous, from Santa Elena, in the 
Kepublic of Ecuador, thickly coated externally with a yellow resinous 
secretion ; and the branched stem of a species of Geranium, from South 
Africa (Monsonia Heeitieei), almost wholly converted into a smooth 
gummy substance. The rest of the outer side of this Table, in- 
cluding the division lettered B 6, is taken up with specimens illus- 
trative of diseases, wounds, or other injuries of trees ; of their repa- 
ration either in whole or in part ; of the results of incisions made 
through the bark into the wood, &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- 
pended. Sections of these woods exhibit the transverse as well as the 
vertical structure. Section C 2 commences with a set of Woods, 
chiefly from New Holland and New Zealand, obtained from the Model 
Eoom of the Board of Admiralty at Somerset House, and ends with 
specimens, in longitudinal and transverse sections, of the woods used 
in the construction of the carriages on the North- Western line of rail- 
way. A set of Woods of Beitish Guiana, arranged for the most part 
alphabetically, according to the native names, occupies the whole of 
