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LIRRARY 
REW YOorF 
(D.) GARUEN 
22 Reo, Rid ; 
REPORT. OF THE BOTANIST. 
Dr. S. B. Wootwortn, 
Secretary of the Legents : 
Sir—The following report tor 1868 is respectfully submitted : 
The specimens of plants known as the ‘“f Beck Collection ” have 
een taken from the folios, poisoned, and arranged in the cabinet case 
been taken f the folios, } d, and ged in the cabinet 
prepared for them. A few folios, containing the undistributed spec i 
mens of the collection, yet remain, there not being room for them in 
the case without too close pressing. 
plicate specimens of the State Herbarium hav 
The unmounted duplicate sp f the State Herb have 
been arranged, with their proper labels, in the empty folios. 
: ‘imens* of the State collection that have been 
The number of specimens* of the State collection that | bee 
poisoned and mounted is about one thousand five hundred, 
representing four hundred and ten species, distributed as follows: 
Pheenogamia, or flowering plants, one hundred and seventy-eight ; 
Cryptogamia, or flowerless plants, two hundred and thirty-two ; of 
which nine species are ferns, one hundred and eighty mosses, and 
forty-three are liverworts. The names of the species are given in the 
accompanying list, marked A. 
In mounting the specimens of mosses, the species, so far as pos- 
sible, have been represented by series of specimens illustrating the 
ifferen s, Variations in size, aspect, etc. In most instances < 
different forms, t , aspect, etc. I t instances a 
single plant has been separated from the tuft and placed by itself on 
the species sheet, that it may be seen individually as well as collect- 
ively. When the genus contains several or many species, the speci- 
_mens of it have been prefaced by arranging a single plant of each 
species side by side on one sheet, thus giving, as it were, a synopsis 
of the genus. Great care has been taken to select the best speci- 
mens that could be obtained, and to mount only clear, unmixed ones ; 
a very important matter, surely, since these diminutive plants often 
* The word specimen, when used in reference to the smaller Cryptogamia, denotes, not a single 
plant, but a moderate sized tuft or aggregation of individual plants. 
[Sen. No. 87.] 4 
