42 Twenty- FOURTH Report on the State Museu31. 



A classified tabular statement is given below : 





1 , 



■J. 



w . 



6 



03 



03 



o 



i 



a 



1 



0) 



Plants collected •< 



Ferns 



Lichens ........ 



Fungi 



2 



11 



288 



ii 



288 



87 



•-2 



Total 





301 



299 



87 



9, 









Plants contributed . . . < 



Flowering plants 



Mosses 



Lichens 



Funsfi 



15 



2 

 15 

 46 



13 



2 

 15 



46 



76 



3 





^ 



in 





Total 





78 



3 











Collected and contrib'ted 





379 



375 



90 



2 









This statement does not include a large number of contributed 

 specimens of species already represented in the Herbarium, nor 

 unrepresented varieties of such species, neither extra limital ones. Of 

 the latter class there are about thirty species, the specimens being 

 from Phode Island, J^ew Jersey, Pennsylvania, Illinois, Colorado, 

 California, Mexico, Michigan, Alabama and China. It is a gratify- 

 ing fact, and one that indicates an increasing interest in botanical 

 studies and investigations, that in no previous year have botanical 

 contributions, communications and inquiries been received in so 

 great numbers, nor from so many persons. Thanks are due to the 

 botanists of this State and of othei's for their liberal contributions. 

 A list of them is given in a paper marked (3). 



New species and their descriptions, previously unreported species, 

 remarkable varieties and observations, are given in a paper marked 



Appended to the list of collected plants, marked (2), is a list of 

 edible fungi, collected and contributed ; fourteen species in all, 

 making, with those previously reported, about sixty edible species in 

 tlie State. • 



Agaricus ctbortivus has not before been published as edible, but 

 it is now thus classed, after a trial of its edible cpalities without 



