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Include numerous notes on fungous parasites preying on useful 

 plants. 



Peck. Two new Fungi from New Jersey. Bull. Torrey Bot. 

 Club, 5 : 2, 3. 1874. 



New Fungi from New Jersey. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, 

 6: 13, 14. 1875. 



New Mexico. 



A few scattering species were early collected by Dr. H. H. 

 Rusby and Marcus E. Jones which were described by Gerard and 

 Peck. A few parasitic species have been collected by Professors 

 Earle and Tracy, and incidentally by others who have traveled 

 across the state. Professors Wooton and Cockerell have collected 

 a few forms in the vicinity of Las Cruces, including an interesting 

 series of Lycoperdaceae now in our hands for examination. A 

 few scattering descriptions appear in various papers, so that per- 

 haps a hundred species have been definitely reported from the 

 state, which is only the beginning for what promises to be a most 

 interesting region. 



We can cite only two papers bearing directly on the local flora: 



Gerard. Some Fungi from New Mexico. Bull. Torrey Bot. 

 Club, 8 : 34. 1 88 1. 



Peck. New Species of Fungi. Bull. Torrey Bot. Club, 12: 33- 

 36. PL 49. 1885. 



Describes eleven species partly from New Mexico. 



New York. 



The Empire state proves itself the one most carefully surveyed 

 of any for its fungus flora. As already stated this is largely due to 

 the labors of its state botanist, Charles H. Peck, who has so long 

 studied its fungi particularly. Numerous other botanists have 

 contributed to this end among whom were Dr. E. C. Howe, W. 

 R. Gerard, Judge G. W. Clinton, Dr. C. E. Fairman, Professors 

 Dudley, Atkinson, Durand, and Duggarof Cornell University, Dr. 

 J. C. Arthur and Mr. F. C. Stewart, at different times botanists at 

 the state experiment station at Geneva, C. L. Shear, who has 

 issued three centuries of New York fungi, O. F. Cook, and the 

 present writer who collected largely in the central portion of the 

 state, and others. Mr. J. B. Ellis, whose home was originally in 



