36 TWHNTY-SIXTH REPORT ON THE STATE MUSEUM. 
Classified Tabular Statement. 
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New species with their descriptions, previously unreported species, 
new stations of rare plants, etc., are given in a section marked (4). 
The plan of making colored sketches of the fleshy fungi to accom- 
pany the dried specimens has been continued. The number of spe- 
cies and varieties figured is sixty-five. 
It has been my purpose to test the edible qualities of the most 
promising of our wild plants as opportunity might occur, and also to 
prove by experiment those fungi already reported in books as edible. 
Having found some thrifty young plants of the giant Solomon’s Seal, 
Polygonatum giganteum, it occurred to me that they might be of some 
value as an article of food. The succulent character of the plant and 
its botanical relations suggested the mode of preparation for the 
table. It was the same as that usually employed in the preparation 
of the asparagus plant. As might have been expected, the flavor of 
the plant, when cooked, closely resembled that of asparagus. It 
does not appear to me to be at all inferior to asparagus as an article 
of food, and it only remains to determine whether it can be cultivated 
with equal facility and profit before pronouncing this indigenous 
plant to be of equal value with the introduced asparagus plant. 
It is with pleasure that I record the vermilion Hygrophorus, 
Hygrophorus miniatus, as edible. It is a valuable addition to our 
list of esculent species, as it has not hitherto been classed among 
