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266 OFFICIAL llEPORT ON THE BOTANICAL DEPARTMENT
agrees with me in the determination of the species. A. uliginosa
grows in swampy, spongy flats^ surronnding the small lake called,
in the Ordnance Map, Cregduff Lough, less than a mile south-west of
Koundstone.
July 29, 1869.
[Though new to Ireland, this plant had already been found in Scot-
land, and was described and figured in Vol. IV. p. i7G, by Mr. J. G.
Baker.— Ed.]
OFFICIAL REPOET ON THE BOTANICAL DEPART-
MENT OF THE BRITISH MUSEUM, 1869.
By John J. Bennett, Esa., F.R.S.
(Ordered hy the Souse of Commons to he prmtedj
The principal business of the department during the past year has
consisted,
—
In the rearrangement in the general herbarium of the families of
GfaminecB, Betulacece, Salicince, Coniferee, and Ci/cadece, and of several
other smaller families of plants.
In the naming, arranging, and laying into the general herbarium of
large collections of plants from the Neilgherry Mountains of India,
formed by Metz, Schmidt, and other collectors ; of a collection formed
by Dr. Schweinfurth in the countries bordering on the course of the
Nile ; of a collection of the plants of Algeria, formed by M. Romain
of collections formed in the neighbourhood of Smyrna, and in other
parts of the East, by M. Balansa ;
in Cilicia and Kurdistan ;
of collections formed by M. Kotschy
of a collection formed by M. Sagot in French
Guiana ; of M. Philippi and M. Germain's collections of Chilian
plants ; of a collection of iJalifornian plants formed by Mr. Bolander
of several collections of Greenland and other Arctic plants ; of speci-
mens of Palms from various regions, and of numerous smaller collec-
tions from different quarters.
In the rearrangement of a large portion of the collection of fruits
and seeds in glass-topped boxes ; and of the specimens, recent and
fossil, of the family of Cycudcrje, incorporating them with the valuable
collection presented by Mr. .Tames Yates.
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