58 



Twenty-fifth Bepobt on the State Musuem. 







New to the 



State. 



New to 

 Science. 



r 



Flowering plants 



Mosses 



2 



4 



6 



211 



1 



3 



Collected -<| 



Lichens 





1 



Funeri 



96 









Total 



222 



100 





Flowering plants 



Hepaticse 





r 



6 

 1 

 4 



20 





Contributed -{ 



Lichens 



% 





Fansri 



2 



^ 



J. t»'-'^^ 





Total 



31 



2 









Collected and distributed, 



253 



102 









Specimens have been received of a considerable number of extra- 

 limital species. A list of these, together with the other contributions 

 and of the contributors, is marked (3). 



New species and descriptions thereof, previously unreported 

 species, remarkable varieties and observations, are given in a section 

 marked (4). 



The large and interesting genus Puccinia is represented in our 

 State by forty species. Of these, several are new and of others only 

 brief and unsatisfactory descriptions have been published, and none 

 of the descriptions that I have seen give the dimensions of the spores. 

 It has been thought desirable, therefore, to give a full synopsis of our 

 species. This is marked (5). It is illustrated by drawings of the 

 magnified spores of all the species. 



The work of making colored sketches of the fleshy fungi as fast as 

 collected has been continued and in some cases extended to the 

 microscopic species and the details of their fructification. The num- 

 ber of species figured is sixty-three. 



A marked deficiency in the production of Agarics and other flesliy 

 fungi the past season has been reported to me by several correspond- 

 ents. The season has not been excessively dry except in the western 

 part of the State, and I am at a loss to know to wliat cause to attri- 

 bute this result. The prevailing low temperature doubtless had 

 some influence in producing the scarcity, but this alone is scarcely a 

 sufiicient cause. 



