6 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
Of these, 10 are described as new species. These are all fungi. 
Their names and descriptions with localities, time of collecting, 
also the names of the other species added to the flora, with re- 
marks, localities and other information may be found under the 
title “Species not before reported.” Noticeable varieties or in- 
teresting forms of species already reported are sometimes found, 
singular variations in habitat or extensions of range observed or 
new hosts of parasitic fungi are discovered. Such and other similar 
facts are recorded under the title ““ Remarks and observations.” 
Among the specimens sent by correspondents for identification, 
it sometimes happens that no description can be found that will 
match some one or more of them. In such a case it becomes 
necessary to consider them the types of new species and to give them 
tiames and write descriptions of them. Eight species and one 
_variety have been found among the specimens received the past 
season from places beyond our State limits. Names and descrip- 
tions of these may be found under the title “ New extralimital 
species.” According to the ruling of the International Botanical 
Congress held at Vienna in 1905 all new species of plants pub- 
lished in and after 1908 must be described in Latin in order to be 
recognized as valid species. In accordance with this rule Latin 
descriptions of the new species published in this report follow the 
English descriptions. | 
The custom of giving colored illustrations of natural size and, 
as far as practicable, nontechnical descriptions of such mushrooms 
as have, upon actual trial, been found to be edible, has been con- 
tinued. Owing to the scarcity of mushrooms only four species 
have been added to our list of edible mushrooms the past year. 
This makes the number of New York edible mushrooms now 
known and figured 195. Descriptions of the four added species 
are given under the title “Edible fungi.” Illustrations of these 
are given on plates 115 and 116. Two new species of New York 
mushrooms and two extralimital species are illustrated on plates 
U and V. } 
Specimens of plants sent or brought to the office of the State 
Botanist for identification or for other information are always wel- 
come, for in this way not only is the desired information obtained 
by the person seeking it but also interesting and valuable plant 
specimens are sometimes added to the museum collections. The 
number of identifications made in such cases the past year is 1640. 
The number of persons for whom identifications have been made 
is 127. 
