ADDITIONS TO THE STATE MUSEUM DURING THE YEAR 1878. 



I. BOTANICAL. 

 A specimen of Solidago virgaurea L. From Prof. P. A. Puissant, Troy, N. Y„ 



Seven flowering plants ; two new to the State Herbarium. From Addison 

 Brown, New York. 



Specimens of Cynophallus caninus~Fr. From H. A. Warne, Oneida, N. Y- 



Two rare Fungi — Polyporus Morgani Frost and Agaricus Morgani Peck. 

 From A. P. Morgan, Dayton, 0. 



Polyporus tomentosa-quercinus Johns. From A. M. Johnson, Minneapolis,, 

 Minn. 



Podaxon Warnei Peck. From W. F. Bundy, Sauk City, Wis. 



Lentinus Lecontei Fr. and Ly coper don leprosum B. & B. From H. W^ 

 Bavenel, Aiken, S. C. 



Zygadenus glaucus Nutt. From L. M. Underwood, Syracuse, N. Y. 



Listera australis Lindl. and Botrychium simplex Hitch. From Bev. H„ 

 Wibbe, Oswego, N. Y. 



Micromitrium Austinii Sulliv. From C. A. Austin, Closter, N. J. 



Salix petiolaris Sm. From M. S. Bebb, Fountaindale, 111. 



Tramates suaveolens Fr. and Polyporus cuticularis Fr. From W. C. Ste- 

 venson, Philadelphia, Pa. 



Six species of flowering plants ; one new to the State Herbarium. From S. H. 

 Wright, M. D., Penn Yan, N. Y. 



Twenty-three species of Fungi. From J. B. Ellis, Newfield, N. J. 



Three species of flowering plants and ten species of Fungi ; eight species new to- 

 the State Herbarium. From Hon. G. W. Clinton, Buffalo, N. Y. 



Nine species of Fungi. From E. A. Bau, Bethlehem, Pa. 



One hundred and sixty-five species of plants, new to the State Herbarium. 

 Collected by the Botanist, C. H. Peck. 



A collection of 1,479 species of plants, principally European, made by Dr. 



Anthony Gescherdt. 



II. ZOOLOGICAL. 

 Bight mandible of the lower jaw (13 ft. 4 in. long) of a Greenland whale 



(Balosna vnysticetus^, which floated ashore at Bockaway Beach in 1875. 



From E. Gee, Albany, N. Y. 



A blunt-nose shiner — Vomer setapinnis (Mitch.). New York coast. From 

 J. B. Hotaling, Albany, N. Y. 



A gold-fish — Cyprinus auratus L., with greatly enlarged abdomen from an 

 ovarian tumor ; length of body, 9.5 inches ; circumference, 11.5 inches. 

 From Edward Seib, Albany, N. Y. 



