REPORT OF THE BOTANIST. 



S. B. WOOLWORTH, LL. D., 



Secretary of the Board of Regents of the University : 

 Sir. — Since the date of my last report, specimens of two hundred 

 and eighty-two species of plants have been mounted and placed in 

 the Herbarium of the State Museum of Natural History, of which 

 two hundred and sixty -seven were not before represented therein. 

 A list of the specimens mounted is marked (1). 



Specimens have been collected in the counties of Albany, Cayuga, 

 Columbia, Greene, Lewis, Delaware, Onondaga, Otsego, Rensselaer, 

 Ulster, Schoharie and Wayne. These represent two hundred and 

 sixteen species new to the Herbarium and one hundred and four 

 species new to science. The latter are all fungi. A list of the 

 species collected is marked (2). It will be seen that this list is but 

 little less than the corresponding one of the preceding year, while 

 the number of new species detected is even greater. These results, I 

 apprehend, are entirely due to the character of the season just past, 

 it having been one unusually favorable* to the production of fungoid 

 plants. 



Specimens of forty-eight New York species, new to the Herbarium 

 and not among my collections of the past season, have been contrib- 

 uted or obtained by naming specimens for correspondents. These 

 added to the collected species make the whole number of additions 

 two hundred and sixty-four. A list of the contributors and their 

 contributions is marked (3). 



