(D.) 



REPORT OF THE BOTANIST. 



Dr. S. B. Woolworth, 



Secretmn/ of the Regents : 



Sir — The following report for 1868 is respectfully submitted : 



The specimens of plants known as the " Beck Collection " have 

 been taken from the folios, poisoned, and arranged in the cabinet case 

 prepared for them. A few folios, containing the undistributed spec i 

 mens of the collection, jet remain, there not being room for them in 

 the case without too close pressing. 



The unmounted duplicate specimens of the State Herbarium have 

 been arranged, with their proper labels, in the empty folios. 



The number of specimens* of the State collection that have been 

 poisoned and mounted is about one thousand five hundred, 

 representing four hundred and ten species, distributed as follows : 

 Phcenogamia, or flowering plants, one hundred and seventy-eight ; 

 Cryptogamia, or flowerless plants, two hundred and thirty-two ; of 

 which nine species are ferns, one hundred and eighty mosses, and 

 forty-three are liverworts. The names of the species are given in the 

 accompanying list, marked A. 



In mounting the specimens of mosses, the species, so far as pos- 

 sible, have been represented by series of specimens illustrating the 

 different forms, variations in size, aspect, etc. In most instances a 

 single plant has been separated from the tuft and placed by itself on 

 the species sheet, that it may be seen individually as well as collect- 

 ively. When the genus contains several or many species, the speci- 

 mens of it have been prefaced by arranging a single plant of each 

 species side by side on one sheet, thus giving, as it were, a synopsis 

 of the genus. Great care has been taken to select the best speci- 

 mens that could be obtained, and to mount only clear, unmixed ones ; 

 a very important matter, surely, since these diminutive plants often 



* The word specimen, when used in reference to the smaller Cryptogamia, denotes, not a single 

 plant, hut a moderate sized tuft or aggregation of individual plants. 



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