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Report of the State Botanisi. 



W. R. Dudley, Pdlo Alto, Cal. 



Hydnum subcarnaceum J^. 

 Merulius irpicinus Pk. 

 M. tenuis Pk. 



Lepidoderma f ulvum Mass, 

 Polyporus versicolor Fr. 



Penicillium candidum Lk. 

 Peziza Dudley! Pk. 

 Gyromitra sphaerospora Sacc . 

 Dsedalea unicolor Fr. 



(C.) . 

 SPECIES NOT BEFORE REPORTED. 

 Ranunculus hispidus Mx. 

 North Greenbush. May. This is included, in the New York 

 State Flora, with Ranunculus repens as variety MarilandicuSy 

 bu+ '' t is no"^ regarded by good botanists as a distinct species. It 

 is one of our earliest flowering buttercups. 



Aster leiophyllus Porter. 

 Lake Mohonk and Shokan, Ulster county. Sept. This beau- 

 tiful aster was at first described by Professor Porter under the 

 name Aster cordifoUus var. Icevigatus, but having concluded that 

 it is a distinct species, he has published it as such under the name 

 here given. It certainly appears to me to be a good species 

 easil)'- distinguished from A. mrdif alius both by the character of 

 its leaves and of its flowers. 



Senecio Robbinsii OaJces. 

 Rocky banks of Black river below BrownsvUle. June. This 

 plant is Senecio aureus var. Balsamitos, of the Manual, but it has 

 recently been raised to specific rank, a position which, in my 

 opinion, it justly merits. According to Dr. Rusby's description, 

 the typical form of the species is two to three feet high, glabrous," 

 with the root leaves sharply and unequally serrate. In our speci- 

 mens the root leaves are crenately serrate, the plants are one to 

 two feet high and show a cotton-like tomentum at the insertion 

 of the leaves and also, under a lens, a minute loose tomentum on 

 the leaves and stems and at the base of the involucres. The 

 peduncles originate at nearly the same point at the top of the 

 stem, giving to the corymb an umbellate appearance. In conse- 

 quence of these variations from the type I would designate our 



