6 Report of the State Botanist. 



Americae Septentrionalis Exsiccatae. Edidit H. P. Sartwell M. D., 

 Pars I. II. Penn Yan, Nov. Ebor. 1848. 50." Many of the specimens 

 were collected in New York by Dr. Sartwell himself, but there 

 are contributions from such eminent botanists (most of whom, alas ! 

 are now dead) as Dewey, Tuckerman, Oakes, Gray, Wood, Chapman, 

 Carey, Olney, Crawe, SuUivant, Mead, Yasey, Kneiskern, Curtis, 

 Cooley and Hale. There are specimens from Massachusetts, 

 Ehode Island, New Jersey, North and South Carolina, Florida, 

 Louisiana, Ohio, Illineis, Michigan and the White Mountains of 

 New Hampshire. Some of the species represented are quite rare 

 and the printed labels show us how all of them were understood 

 by these master minds in those early days of American 

 caricography. 



Another contribution worthy of special notice is that of Pro- 

 fessor Eaton of New Haven. It is a collection of ferns made in 

 the Island of Trinidad by Mr. Augustus Fendler and commonly 

 known as " Fendler's Ferns of Trinidad.'' The luxuriant and 

 beautiful ferns of tropical regions are alwa3^s full of interest to 

 s tudents of this branch of botany, and these will greatly aid those 

 who may wish to study the ferns of our conservatories. A list 

 of contributors and their respective contributions is marked B. 



A record of species not before reported by me and descriptions 

 of such as are thought to be new will be found in a part of the 

 report marked C. 



I have added to this the descriptions of seven extra-limital 

 species that were sent to me for identification but of which no 

 description was found. 



Remarks concerning species previously reported, a record of 

 new localities of rare plants and descriptions of new varieties 

 may be found in a part of the report marked D. 



Following a plan previously adopted, the descriptions of our 

 New York species of Omphalia have been revised and rewritten 

 and the spores examined and their dimensions included so that 

 the identification of our species may be made more easy, certain 

 and satisfactory, fhese descriptions may be found in a part of 

 the report marked E. 



In accordance with my instructions the work of preparing 

 life-size drawings of our edible and poisonous species of fleshy 

 fungi, colored according to nature, has been commenced. At 



