a? REPORT. | ** 
To the Honorable the Board of Regents of the University of the State - 
of New York: 
GENTLEMEN — The work of the year now past has been devoted to the 
poisoning, mounting and labeling of specimens of plants, to their collec- 
tion, and in some instances to figuring them, in order to preserve as 
completely as possible the appearance and characters of the fresh grow- 
ing plant, or to present to the eye at a glance the minute microscopic 
details and spore characters. Aid has also been rendered to several cor- 
respondents by identifying for them specimens of plants sent for that 
purpose, a work whereby knowledge is disseminated and the advantages 
of the herbarium are distributed and in a measure rendered available 
to those even who are not able personally to consult it. Attention has 
also been given to the examination of diseased specimens of cultivated 
lants, which have been sent for that purpose, in order that the cause 
of the affection might, if possible, be aScertained. Some time has also 
been spent in revising a part of the collection of fungi in the herbar- 
ium, the necessity for which is hereinafter set forth. 
Specimens of one hundred and forty-nine species of plants have been 
mounted‘and added to the herbarium of the State Museum of Natural 
History, forty-four of which were not previously represented therein. 
The specimens of the remaining one hundred and five species serye to 
improve or render more complete the representation of the species ox 
exhibit some form or variety of the plant not previously shown. The 
mounted specimens include both collected and contributed ones. A 
list of their specific names accompayies this report and is marked 
(A). A list of the names of contributors and of the species repre- 
sented by their respective contributors is marked (B). 
_ The operation of the Executive veto of the appropriation for the ex- 
penses of the Botanist in the year 1882 extended over a considerable 
part of the past year, consequently but little collecting could be done. 
The appropriation made for this purpose at the last session of the 
Legislature was not available until October first, the beginning of the 
present fiscal year, and then the season for field work had nearly 
closed. But a part of the summer was so favorable to the production 
of Agarici and other fleshy fungi that I was unwilling to let so good 
an opportunity pass unimproved. Accordingly I collected what I 
could in the counties of Albany and Rensselaer without incurring a 
greater expense than I was able and willing to bear out of my own 
pocket. The result was the collection of specimens of more than a 
hundred species of fungi, of which thirty-two are new to our State 
and several are new to science. The descriptions of the new species 
