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REPORT OF THE BOTANIST. f°" | /°” 
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S. B. Wootworru, LL. D., Secretary of the Board of Regents of the 
University : 
Srr. — Since the date of my last report, specimens of two hundred 
and twenty-five species of plants have been mounted and placed in 
the State Herbarium, of which two hundred and one were not before 
represented. A list of these is marked (1). 
Specimens have been collected in the counties of Albany, Rens- 
selaer and Lewis. These represent one hundred and sixteen species 
of fungi new to the Herbarium. Sixty-eight of them are regarded as 
new or undescribed species. A list of collected plants is marked (2). 
Specimens of thirty-seven species, new to the Herbarium and not 
among my collections of the past season, have been received from 
correspondents. Twelve of them are regarded as new or hitherto 
undescribed species. If the contributed specimens be added to those 
of my own collecting, the total number of additional species repre- 
sented is one hundred and fifty-three. This does not include extra- 
limital species, specimens of a considerable number of which have 
been received. A list of contributors and their contributions is 
marked (3). 
Notices of previously unreported species, with descriptions of new 
species, are marked (4). 
Notices of species previously reported, with remarks and observa- 
tions, are marked (5). 
Nearly three hundred species of fungi that attack and inhabit liv- - 
ing plants have been detected in the State. 
They affect almost as many species of flowering plants. In some 
cases several parasites attack the same host plant; in others, one 
parasite attacks two or more host plants indiscriminately. But, in 
many instances, a.single parasite is peculiar to a single supporting 
plant, in which cases the latter may be taken by the student asa 
guide in his search for the description of the former. A Puccinia 
found on the leaves of the dwarf cornel, Cornus Canadensis, is almost 
