REPORT OF THE BOTANIST. 
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S. B. Wootworrtu, LL. D., Secretary of the Board of Regents 
of the University: 
Srr.—Since the date of my last report, specimens of one 
hundred and sixty-five species of plants have been mounted 
and placed in the Herbarium, of which one hundred and 
thirty were not before represented therein. A list of these is 
marked (1). 
Specimens have been collected in the counties of Albany, 
Essex, Greene, Hamilton, Otsego, Rensselaer and Saratoga. 
These represent one hundred and thirty-two species new to the 
Herbarium, one hundred and twenty-nine of which are. fungi. 
Of these, sixty-nine are regarded as new or previously unde- 
scribed species. A list of plants collected is marked (2). 
Specimens of thirty-six New York species, new to the Herba- 
rium and not among my collections of the past season, have 
been furnished by correspondents. These added to those col- 
lected make the whole number of additions one hundred and 
sixty-eight. There are besides a considerable number of extra- 
limital contributions. A list of the contributors and their con- 
tributions is marked (38). 
New species with their descriptions and previously unre- 
ported species are given in a section marked (4). Newstations 
of rare plants, remarks and observations are given in a section 
marked (5). 
While on a collecting trip in the Adirondack region, in July 
-and August, my attention was repeatedly arrested by the 
extensive ravages of the spruce-destroying beetle, Hylurgus 
rujfipennis Kirby, of which a partial account was given in the 
twenty-eighth report. The green slopes of Mt. Emmons, com- 
monly called Blue Mountain, and of several mountains to the 
north of it had their beauty, and their value too, greatly 
impaired by the abundant intermixture of the brown tops of 
dead spruces. The destruction was also visible along the road 
between Newcomb and Long Lake, and on the mountain slopes 
