REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I917 II 



I trust tliat this infonnalion will cover your in()uir}", and T assure you 

 that if there is auything further that I can tell you about this collection 

 I will be only too glad to do so and to assist you in every way possible. 

 Hoping that this will prove satisfactory, with my kindest regards, I am, 



Very truly yours 



John Hurley 



The inference to be drawn from this letter to Doctor Clarke, that 

 the plants were collected near Little Falls and inadvertently left in 

 the Brook's house, is not borne out by the labels accompanying the 

 specimens. All excepting about a dozen wei"e collected at or near 

 Utica during the month of May 1832. A very few were collected 

 at Little Falls, Paris and other localities. 



A glance at the list of species, shows that the bundle contained 

 a fairly representative collection of plants which bloom during 

 May in the vicinity of Utica, and it is quite possible that the 

 collection represents a set of common flowering plants of that season 

 which Professor Gray presented to some member of the Brooks 

 family. This assumption is further borne out by the fact that the 

 specimens are not very ample, but just a small or fairly good speci- 

 men of each species. There are also very few duplicates and very 

 few rare species, if we except Collinsia verna, which in 

 those days was said to be common near Utica, but is now a rare 

 plant in our flora. 



Following is a list of the species represented, using the names of 

 current botanical literature: 



Actaea alba Carex flava 



" rubra " festucacea 



Acer spicatum " granulans 



Anemone quinquefolia " canescens 



canadensis " gracillima 



Arisaema triphyllum " swanii 



Asplenium felix-foemina " hystricina 



Bicuculla cucullaria " hirtifolia 



Capnoides sempervirens " echinata 



Carex bullata " laxiflora 



" bromoides " lasiocarpa 



" crinita " lupulina 



" deweyana " livida 



" diandra " leptalea 



folliculata " lacustris 



flexuosa " oligocarpa 



