G Annual Report of the State Botanist. 



included in the foreg-oing- enumeration. A list of the contributors 

 and of their respective contributions is marked B. 



The record of species not before reported, together with their 

 respective localities, habitats, and time of collection, also remarks 

 concerning them and descriptions of new species, is marked C. 



Remarks concerning species previously reported, a record of new 

 localities of rare plants and descriptions of peculiar forms or vari- 

 eties are contained in a subdivision marked D. 



The genus Trichoioma is a large one, numbering, according to 

 Sylloge Fungorum, 187 species. It is at present represented in this 

 State by 48 species. Some of these are variable in size and color, 

 and others are so similar to each other in general appearance that 

 they are not identified without difficulty. A collation and revision 

 of the descriptions of our New York species and a systematic 

 arrangement of them has seemed desirable. This I have attempted 

 to do, following the plan pre^dously adopted in reference to several 

 other genera of Agaricini. Synoptical tables of the different 

 groups of species have been prepared to facilitate the tracing of 

 the species, tlie descriptions have been revised and in many cases 

 made more complete, and remarks have been added to some of 

 these for the purpose of pointing out more clearly the distinguish- 

 ing characters. It is believed that these will in nearly all cases 

 enable the student to identify the species with rapidity and accu- 

 racy. This monograph of the New York species of Trichoioma is 

 marked E. 



Mary E. Banning, of Baltimore, Maryland, has for several years 

 been engaged in studying the fleshy fungi of Maryland. Of most 

 of them she has made drawings of the living plant and written 

 descriptions of the species, to which in many cases remarks con- 

 cerning her own observations of their habits, peculiarities and 

 edible qualities have been added. The figures are beautifully 

 painted by ];iand in water colors. They are natural size, life-like in 

 expression and accurate in detail. They are on sheets 12 by 15 

 inches, thus permitting a full size illustration of even the large species. 

 Each plate is devoted to a single species or variety. Generally both 

 the young and the mature plant have been figui-ed and a vertical 

 section of a plant. The specimen has been placed in such positions 

 that both the upper and lower surfaces of the pileus may be seen. 

 Most of the species figured belong to the Hymenomycetes and 

 Gasteromycetes. The whole number of species recorded in her 

 list is 179. Of these, 151 have been illustrated on 175 plates, two 

 or mqre plates being in some instances devoted to one species in 



