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202 REVISION OF THE GENUS SANGUISORBA.
more recent researches almost threefold. Of the 'Fragmenta Phy-
tographife Australiae,' the sixth volume has also been completed last
year, and the seventh is commenced. Within tlie few next years I
trust it will be in my power, if Providence grants me life and strength,
to issue, on the plants of each of the Australian colonies, a special
volume, for which much preliminary work has been done.
The library became also lately further enlarged, but mainly on tlie
Director's private means. Personal travelling expenses since 1852,
and all outlay for scientific and local journals, British and foi'eigu
agencies, means of conveyance for attending at the city, office light,
and many other official expenses, as well as the courtesies v/hich are
demanded from a pul)lic department frequented by very numerous
visitors, have also ever solely and readily been defrayed from the ad-
ministrator's own resources, who, not for any selfish purposes whatever,
ventures to place these facts, after tlie lapse of many years, on record,
but simply in justice to himself, because the obligations devolving on
bim in maintaining the efficiency and dignity of the department seem
not at all understood.
When now long past the zenith of ordinary life, he can with fairness
assert, that thirty of his best years have been absorbed almost entirely
in phytologic and cognate pursuits ; that almost seventeen years have
been devoted cheerfully and exclusively to the main foundation and on
struggling services of his department, and this, he may add, with the
sole aim of endeavouring to effect some lasting good to the great
country which, since twenty-two years, he adopted as his permanent
home.
Ferdinand von Mueller.
REVISION OF THE GENUS SANGUISORBA.
By Professoh Alexander Braun and C. Bouche, Esq.
{From Index Sem. Sort. Bot. Berol. 1868.)
SANGUISORBA, TabemEcm. ; J. Bauh. (1651); Scopoli (1760);
Wiggea-s (1780); Spenner et Schimpcr (1829); Moretti (1883);
Cesati (1841). Pmpinella, C. Baidi. (1023); Tournef. (1719)
Haller (1742) ; Ga^rtncr (1788). Pokriimi, Benth. ct Hooker, Gen.
PI. (1805).
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