Education Department Bulletin 



Published fortnightly by the University of the State of New York 



Entered as second-class matter June 24, 1908, at the Post Office, at Albany, N. Y. under 



the act of July 16, 1894 



No. 514 ALBANY, N. Y. March i, 1912 



New York State Museum 



John M. Clarke, Director. 

 Charles H. Peck, State Botanist 



Museum Bulletin 157 



REPORT OF STATE BOTANIST 1911 



Dr John M. Clarke, Director of the State Museum: 



I have the honor of submitting the following report of work done 

 in the botanical section of the vState ^hiseum during the past year. 



Specimens of plants for the State herbarium have been collected 

 in the counties of Albany, Essex, Lewis, Oneida, Otsego, Rensselaer, 

 Saratoga, Steuben and Warren. 



Specimens have been contributed by correspondents and others 

 that were collected in the counties of Albany, Cattaraugus, Columbia, 

 Cortland, Franklin, Fulton, Greene, Herkimer, Jefiferson, Monroe, 

 New York, Oneida, Onondaga, Ontario, Orange, Orleans, Queens, 

 Rensselaer, Richmond, Schenectady, Suffolk, Tompkins, Warren, 

 Washington and Westchester. 



Extralimital specimens have been contributed that were collected 

 in Alaska, California, Canada, Colorado, Connecticut, Cuba, Dela- 

 ware, District of Columbia. Europe. Florida, Indiana, Kansas, Mary- 

 land, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Nebraska, New Jersey, 

 Ohio, Oregon, Utah, \^ermont and Washington. 



The number of species of which specimens have been added to 

 the herbarium is 283 of which 100 were not before represented in it. 

 Of these, 28 are new or hitherto undescribed species. All of these 

 are fungi. 



A list of the names of the added specimens is marked " Plants 

 added to the Herbarium." 



The number of those who have contributed specimens is 74. This 

 includes those who sent specimens merely for identification, if the 

 specimens were collected in our State and were in such condition 



