New Zealand Flora Collected
Of the three principal herbaria in the country, the one built up by the Botany Division of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research and located in Wellington is the youngest. It began in 1928 with the inception of the Plant Research Station at Palmerston North when a small nucleus collection was received from the original Biological Laboratory of the Department of Agriculture. The herbarium now contains about 70,000 Sheets of specimens and is expanding at the rate of some 2,000 a year. It cannot yet boast quite as comprehensive a representation of the native flora in its boxes as its sister herbaria of the Auckland Museum and the Dominion Museum. Nevertheless, a ni rr ber of its sections are outstanding. For example, the section of naturalised flora is most comprehensive and up to date. Practically every weed species known to occur in the country could be examined on its sheets. /
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 14, Issue 85, 13 January 1950, Page 4
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