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having no bearing on Philippine totally, is not discussed here. The 
first paper in the volume is by W. S. Sullivant, on the mosses, this being 
published privately in 1859, an imperial folio of 32 pages and 26 plates. 
Three species of Philippine mosses are included, two of them with 
descriptions, although diagnoses had previously appeared in the Proceed- 
ings of the American Academy 3 (1857) 181-185. In 1862, the re- 
mainder of the work treating of the vascular cryptogams was published, 
the second paper being an enumeration of the lichens by Edwin Tucker- 
man, no Philippine forms being considered. In a following paper, pages 
155 to 192, J. W. Bailey and W. H. Harvey deal with the algae and 
diatoms, six species of the former being enumerated from the Philippines, 
of which one was new, and twenty-six species of the latter, of which five 
were new, these new species also having been previously described. 1 The 
last paper on cellular cryptogams is one on fungi by M. A. Curtiss and 
M. J. Berkeley, pages 195 to 202, in which a single Philippine species 
is enumerated. 
One other work, although not published as a Wilkes Expedition report, 
which treats of the botany of the expedition, is the second part of 
Pickering's “Geographical Distribution of Animals and Plants,” which 
was published in 1876. This work was prepared for the Wilkes Expedi- 
tion reports, and part 1 was issued as such, part 2 being published by 
the author privately, after Government appropriations for printing had 
been withdrawn. It consists of 524 pages, ending abruptly, the re- 
mainder never having been printed. The Philippines are considered from 
page 491 to the end, the work ending in the middle of the enumeration of 
Mangsi (Philippines) plants. Here are listed approximately 500 species 
of Philippine plants, for the most part without specific identifications 
and in many eases not even determined to the family. However, from 
this list, it is evident that many species of plants were collected in the 
Philippines that were not included in other published reports, some of 
which appear not to be represented by extant specimens. 
The Wilkes Expedition reached Manila on January 13, 1842, 2 and 
botanical collections Svere made from this date to the 20th of the month 
in the vicinity of the city and on a trip inland up the Pasig River and 
across Laguna de Bay. Messrs. Pickering and Eld proceeded to Santa 
Cruz and Majaijai, from the latter place ascending Mount Majaijai 
(Mount Banajao) on January 17, while Messrs. Rich, Dana and Bracken- 
ridge went to the town of Bay with the object of proceeding to Taal 
Volcano, but finding the latter trip impracticable they went to Los 
Banos and made a partial ascent of Mount Maquiling, being later joined 
1 Proc. Acad. Philad . 6 (1S54) 430. 431, reprinted in Quart. Journ. Micros. 
Sci. 3 (1855) 93, 94. 
2 Pickering, Geog. Distr. Animals and Plants 2 (187(1) : Wilkes, Narrative 5 
(1845) 272-367. 
