]6 Report of the State Botanisi. 



W. R. Dudley, Palo Alto, Cal. 



Hydnum subcarnaceum Fr. 

 Merulius irpicinxis Pk. 

 M, tenuis Pk. 



Lepidoderma fulvum Mass. 

 Polyporus versicolor Fr. 



Penicillium candidum Lk. 

 Peziza Dudley! Pk. 

 Gyromitra sphaerospora Sacc . 

 Daedalea unicolor Fr. 



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SPECIES NOT BEFORE REPORTED. 

 Ranunculus hispidus Mx. 



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

 State Flora, with Raminculus repens as variety Marildndicus^ 

 bu+ ^t is now 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 cordifolius 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 

 easily distinguished from A. cordifolius both by the character of 

 its leaves and of its flowers. 



Senecio Robbinsii Oakes. 



Rocky banks of Black river below Brownsville. June. This 

 plant is Senecio aureus var. Balsamitce 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 



