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Some of our best and most interesting additions to the herbarium 

 have been made in this way. The names of contributors of such 

 specimens and of extraHmital specimens with their respective 

 contributions are given under the title " Contributors and their 

 contributions." 



The number of species added to our New York flora is yj. 

 Several of these have been reported before as varieties of other 

 species or confused with other species, but having been recently 

 admitted in Gray's New Manual as distinct species it has been 

 thought best to record them as such with their known New York 

 localities. The names of these and other added species together 

 with their localities, descriptions of new species, and other mat- 

 ters of interest will be found under the title " Species not before 

 reported." Under the heading " Remarks and observations " any 

 facts of interest concerning the species mentioned are recorded. 

 This record may include new varieties of plants or notable varia- 

 tions, new localities for rare plants, and remarks concerning the 

 diseases of plants or their economic properties. 



The work of testing our wild mushrooms for their edible qual- 

 ities as opportunity was given has been continued. Five species 

 have been personally tested and approved as edible. These, 

 added to the species and varieties previously known, make the 

 number of New York species and varieties now known to be 

 edible 200. Plain and simple descriptions of the newly added 

 species are given under the title " Edible fungi." Colored fig- 

 ures of these species may be found on plates 117-20. Among 

 the extralimital contributed specimens 10 apparently new spe- 

 cies are represented. Descriptions of these species are given in 

 a part of the report marked " New species of extralimital fungi." 

 Colored figures of six of these species may be found on plates 

 W, X, Y and Z. 



Revised descriptions of our New York species of the genera 

 Inocybe and Hebeloma have been prepared, with keys to the 

 sections or subgenera and to the species. It is believed that 

 these simple localized monographs will be helpful to those 

 studying or desiring to study these interesting subjects of the 

 vegetable kingdom. These chapters are respectively entitled 

 " New York species of Inocybe " and " New York species of 

 Hebeloma." 



The climatic character of the season has been to a large extent 

 a repetition of that of 1908. A cold late spring, an unusually 

 dry summer and prevailing cool weather were its characteristic 



