New York State Education Department 



New York State Museum 



John M. Clarke Director 

 Charles H. Peck State Botanist 



Bulletin 94 

 BOTANY 8 



REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST 1904 



Specimens of plants for the state herbarium have been collected 

 in'^the counties of Albany, Columbia, Essex, Fulton, Genesee, 

 Hamilton, Lewis, Livingston, Madison, Monroe, Otsego, Rensselaer, 

 Saratoga, Schenectady, Suffolk, Tompkins, Warren and Wyoming. 



Specimens have been contributed that were collected in the 

 counties of Albany, Cattaraugus, Chautauqua, Dutchess, Essex, 

 Greene, Hamilton, Herkimer, Monroe, Oneida, Onondaga, Ontario, 

 Orleans, Richmond, Saratoga, Suffolk, Tioga, Tompkins and 

 Washington. 



jThe number of species of which specimens have been added to 

 the herbarium is 321, Of these, 72 were not previously represented 

 in5fit and the remaining 249 are now better or more completely 

 Tepresented. Of the 72 species, 9 are considered new or previously 

 undescribed species. These are all fungi. Descriptions of them 

 will be given- in the following pages. The names of the species of 

 which specimens have been added to the herbarium are given 

 tinder the title "Plants added to the herbarium." 



The names of those who have contributed specimens and the 

 names of the species represented by their respective contributions 

 are given under the title "Contributors and their contributions." 

 Many of the contributed specimens belong to extralimital species. 

 Some of the specimens of mosses and hepatics contributed by 

 Prof. John Macoun, botanist of the Geological and Natural History 

 Survey of Canada, represent species found in the extreme western 

 and northwestern part of British America. In some cases, speci- 

 mens sent for identification have been in good condition and desir- 

 able for the herbarium. These have been preserved and credited 

 to the sender as a contribution. The number of contributors 

 is 54. 



