4? TWENTY-FOURTH REPORT ON THE STATE MUSEUM. 
A classified tabular statement is given below: 
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| Flowering plants; 15; 13 
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Collected and contrib’ted| ............... | 379 | 875 | 90 2 
This statement does not include a large number of* contributed 
specimens of species already represented in the Herbarium, nor 
unrepresented varieties of such species, neither extra limital ones. Of 
the latter class there are about thirty species, the specimens being 
from Rhode Island, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Colorado, 
California, Mexico, Michigan, Alabama and China. It is a gratify- 
ing fact, and one that indicates an increasing interest in botanical 
studies and investigations, that in no previous year have botanical 
contributions, communications and inquiries been received-in so 
great numbers, nor from so many persons. Thanks are due to the 
botanists of this State and of others for their liberal contributions. 
A list of them is given in a paper marked (3). 
New species and their descriptions, previously unreported species, 
remarkable varieties and observations, are given in a paper marked 
(4). 
Appended to the list of collected plants, marked (2), is a list of 
edible fungi, collected and contributed ; fourteen species in all, 
making, with those previously reported, about sixty edible species in 
the State. 
Agaricus abortivus has not before been published as edible, but 
it is now thus classed, after a trial of its edible qualities without 
