New York State Museum Bulletin 



Published by The University of the State of New York 



No. 266 ALBANY, N. Y. June 1925 



New York State Museum ^'^^^A^rr 



John M. Clarke, Director Hiil " ■ < - . 



Homer D. House, State Botanist QA-l^uiifi 



REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST FOR 1924 



Scientific investigations. The investigative work of the State 

 Botanist during 1924, and since the last pubHshed report of this 

 ofifice, has been directed chiefly toward the completion of the An- 

 notated List of the Ferns and Flowering Plants of New York State, 

 which was published as Museum Bulletin 254. This has involved 

 much bibliographic work as well as study of the plants in the state 

 herbarium. Collections and field studies have been carried on dur- 

 ing the past year in the vicinity of Newcomb, Essex county ; the 

 east shore of Lake Ontario, in Jefferson and Oswego counties; and 

 the vicinity of Oneida lake in the central part of the State. Collec- 

 tions of plants from these and other localities, which are of scientific 

 interest have been incorporated into the herbarium. The ferns and 

 flowering plants of peculiar interest are reported upon under Local 

 Flora Notes, and the fungi under Notes on Fungi. A large number 

 of fungi, both parasitic and saprophytic, chiefly of recent collection, 

 have been studied in collaboration with Dr John Dearness, and 

 reported upon under the heading New or Noteworthy Species of 

 Fungi. 



Doctor Peck's field notes. Investigators in mycology who have 

 had occasion to refer to Doctor Peck's types or other collections of 

 fungi in the state herbarium have often commented upon the fact 

 that his published descriptions and reports of species already pub- 

 lished do not give the year of collection. This is explained in large 

 part by the fact that the species described or reported upon were 

 collected during the year for which the publication is the annual 

 report. Very rarely does he report upon any collection except of 

 the current year, the various monographs, of course, excepted. 

 These monographs were very largely, if not wholly, a compilation 



