80 STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



KEPORT OF THE DEPARTMENT OF BOTANY AND FORESTRY. 



To the President: 



Sir — I have the honor to submit my report for the year closing June 

 30, 1898. 



Students have been instructed as follows: 



Freshmen in structural botany, daily for fourteen weeks 134 



Freshmen in systematic botany, twice a week for twelve weeks 109 



Agricultural sophomores in plant histology, daily for twelve weeks . . 18 



Women in plant histology, three time a week for twelve weeks 17 



Sophomores (agricultural and women), three time a week in trees 



and shrubs for eleven weeks 13 



Agricultural juniors in weeds and grasses, daily for seven and one- 

 half weeks 16 



Agricultural seniors electing parasitic fungi, fourteen weeks daily. . 14 



Seniors (agricultural and women), work on theses 8 



Stockmen, six weeks daily on grasses 9 



Home dairymen, three weeks daily on grasses 8 



Specialists in horticulture, six weeks daily in botany 3 



349 



THE HERBARIUM. 



There have been added the past twelve months seed-bearing plants, 

 ferns and their allies from the following sources: 



E. S. Steele, Washington, D. 87 



A. A. Heller, plants from New Mexico 255 



S. B. Parish, plants from southern California 100 



Wm. H. Cusick, eastern Oregon 199 



C. G. Pringle, Mexico 150 



O. D. Allen, Washington 100 



H. E. Brown, California 72 



C. A. Davis, Tuscola county 23 



Gray Herbarium, Massachusetts 10 



Alabama, biological survey IS 



Herbarium, Cornell University, Greenland plants 28 



C. F. Wheeler and B. O. Longyear, plants from counties of 



Livingston, Jackson and southeastern Ingham 183 



W. J. Beal and C. D. McLouth, Muskegon, city and vicinity 243 



C. F. Wheeler and C. A. Davis, Montcalm county 100 



C. F. Wheeler, Grand Traverse county 125 



C. F. Wheeler, Crawford county 20 



Collections made at M. A. C. and vicinity 135 



1,848 



