University of tlie State of New Yorl[ Bulletin 



Entered as second-class matter August 2, 1913 at the Post Office at Albany, N. Y., 

 under the act of August 24, 1912 



Published fortnightly 

 No. 550 ALBANY, N. Y. September i, 1913 



New York State Museum 



John M. Clarke, Director 

 Charles H. Peck, State Botanist 



Museum Bulletin 167 

 REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST 191 2 



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 State Museum since the date 

 of my last report. 



The collections of the season of 191 1 have been mounted on 

 herbarium sheets or placed in pasteboard boxes suitable for 

 their reception and arranged in their proper places in the her- 

 barium. Additional specimens of plants either native or natural- 

 ized have been collected in the counties of Albany, Essex, 

 Lewis, Livingston, Monroe, Steuben and Sullivan. 



Specimens have been contributed that were collected in the 

 counties of Albany, Chautauqua, Cattaraugus, Clinton, Colum- 

 bia, Fulton, Hamilton, Herkimer, Monroe, New York, Oneida, 

 Ontario, Onondaga, Orleans, Oswego, Rensselaer, Richmond, 

 Schoharie, Suffolk, Tompkins, Ulster, Warren and Washington. 



Correspondents have contributed extralimital specimens that 

 were collected in Canada, California, Colorado, Connecticut, 

 Cuba, District of Columbia, Indiana, Kansas, Kentucky, Maine, 

 Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana, New 

 Hampshire, New Jersey, North Carolina, Ohio, Pennsylvania, 

 Utah and Vermont. 



The number of species of which specimens have been added 

 to the herbarium is 278, of which 72 were not before represented 

 therein. Of these, 11 are cotisidered new or hitherto undescribed 

 species. 



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

 added to the herbarium." These are divided into two groups 



