EBPOET OF THE BOTANIST. 



To the Honorable the Board of Regents of the University of the State 

 of Neiv York : 



Gentlemen. — I liave the liouor 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 in 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 



