REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST IQI5 9 
Additions to the herbarium. The number of specimens which 
have been added to the herbarium during the past year from cur- 
rent collections is 584, from contributions and exchanges 396, a 
total of 980 specimens, representing 938 species, in addition to more 
than 400 additional specimens which have been mounted from the 
unnamed material accumulated in the past. Of these, 222 species 
were not previously represented in the herbarium and 30 species and 
varieties are described as new to science. The number of those who 
have contributed specimens to the herbarium is 20. This includes 
those who have sent specimens merely for identification and which 
were desirable additions to the herbarium. 
Identifications. The State Botanist’s office has been called upon 
to identify or report upon 650 specimens of flowering plants, ferns, 
mosses, lichens and fungi, by 110 different persons. 
