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Plants of Wagner collected in Panama and Ecuador are in the 
royal herbarium of Munich and University of Gottingen. Possibly 
these include his Venezuelan plants. 
Karsten ('58-'69) who published the extensive flora of Colombia 
and the adjacent regions included seventy-nine plants collected in 
Venezuela. 
Plants collected by Birschel at Caracas are in the Gray herbarium. 
Fendler's (see Eaton '61) collections of Venezuelan plants are in the 
herbariums of de Candolle, Delessert, Engelmann, Franqueville, Uni- 
versity of Dublin, Gray herbarium, and British museum. August 
Fendler was a German botanist who lived in Colonia Tovar near 
Caracas from 1854-59. His collection comprised nearly 3000 num- 
bers. There is no published list excepting that of the ferns and 
orchids, and a large part of the })lants remain in the herbariums 
entirely or partially unidentified. Fendler was at one time an assistant 
at the Gray herbarium and his collecting was carried on to some 
extent under Dr. Gray's encouragement and patronage. It is be- 
lieved that the set of his plants in the Gray herbarium is as nearly 
complete as any in existence. 
Adolphus Ernst, who for a number of years was secretary of agri- 
culture in Venezuela and also a professor at the University of Cara- 
cas, has contributed more to our knowledge of the Venezuelan flora 
than any other man since Humboldt's time. Ernst had in prepa- 
ration a flora of Venezuela but owing to his death in 1899 it was never 
completed. He did, however, publish numerous short articles per- 
taining to the vegetation. A complete list of these occurs in the 
bibliography of his works published at Jena in 1900 (Ernst, '00b). 
The more important of these are the lists of the plants of Los Roques 
(Ernst, '72a), of La Tortuga (Ernst, '76b), of Margarita (Ernst, '86), 
and the list of ferns and of the orchids of Venezuela. The plants 
which he collected appear to be entirely inaccessible today. They 
are not to be found in the University museum at Caracas nor in the 
old National museum of natural history. It is possible that they have 
been sent to various European herbariums. As his lists contain 
merely the names of the plants with few or no notes, their identifica- 
tion in some cases must remain a matter of question. 
In 1896, Professor H. H. Rusby ('96) and Roy W. Squires collected 
about the lower Orinoco. Their plants are in the New York college 
of pharmacy and in the Gray herbarium. 
