FARLOW HERBARIUM 
INDEX TO THE MOSS HERBARIUM OF V.F. SCHIFFNER 
The bryophyte herbarium of Victor Felix Schiffner (1862-1944) 
was purchased from Ernst Bauer in 1931. It consisted of approximately 
40,000 specimens (19,200 Hepaticae and 19,821 Musci, excluding speci¬ 
mens currently on loan). Also at FH is a set of Schiffner T s Java fungi 
determined by von Hbhnel and 150 Brazilian lichens determined by 
Zahlbruckner, as well as the exsiccatae Hepaticae europeae and Algae 
marinae . The original set of bryophytes of the Brazilian expedition 
is at WU; his library, manuscripts, and a residue of bryophyte speci¬ 
mens were in the possession of F. Verdoorn in 1936; types of algae are 
reported to be at W and BM. 
The moss herbarium at FH contains, besides the first set of Iter 
indicum , many isotypes of Carl Muller and of Brotherus, and, among others, 
a few of von Hohnel, Baumgartner, and Podpera. Types and other authentic 
specimens are underlined in this Index if the designation appears on the 
label; no verifications and no search for unmarked types have been made. 
The collection was remounted and indexed in 1973-1974; names of taxa have 
been left as in the original herbarium. An index to the hepatic herbarium 
is also available. 
