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mePORT OF THE  BOTANISTL. 
To the Honorable the Board of Regents of the University of the State 
of New York: 
GENTLEMEN.—I have the honor to communicate to you the 
following report : 
In the prosecution of the work of completing and arranging the 
State Herbarium the past year, specimens of the plants of the. 
State have been collected in the counties of Albany, Greene, 
- Lewis, Oneida, Oswego, Rensselaer, Saratoga and Ulster. Speci- 
mens have also been contributed which were collected mm the 
counties of Broome, Cayuga, Kings, Orleans, Rensselaer and 
Wayne. Specimens of one hundred and seventy species of plants 
have been added to the herbarium, of which twenty-seven were 
contributed by correspondents and one hundred and forty-three 
were collected by the botanist. Of those collected by the bota- 
nist, one hundred and five species are new to the herbarium 
and to the State flora. Among the added species are twenty-six 
flowering plants, some of which are introduced and possibly may 
not be sufficiently abundant and well-established to be properly 
considered a part of our flora, but all were found growing without 
cultivation and it was thought best to place the fact on record. A 
list of the added species is appended and is marked A. 
The number of correspondents who have contributed specimens 
is seventeen. The contributed specimens of extralimital species 
are not included in the foregoing enumeration. A list of the 
names of-the contributors, and of their respective contributions, 
is marked B. ; 
In the eastern part of the State, the months of July, August 
and September were-unusually favorable to the production of 
fleshy fungi, the Hymenomycetes, and special attention was given 
to the collection of these plants. They constitute a large percentage 
of the added species and among them are many that are considered 
new to science. In consequence of their evanescent colors, painted 
