6 EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL REPORT OF THE REGENTS, 



Peck of Albany has presented the Herbarium with excellent spe- 

 cimens of 144 native species, all collected by himself. It is esti- 

 mated that the whole number of mosses growing within the State 

 does not exceed 250. A list of those presented by Mr. Peck forms 

 one of the schedules of this Report. 



The Rev. John A. Paine jun., at present of Utica, has prepared 

 a most interesting Catalogue of the Plants of Oneida county and 

 of several neighboring counties, with valuable notes as to the 

 habits and stations of the rarer ones. We do a service to science 

 in annexing the catalogue to our report. 



In the Class Book of Botany by Professor Wood, the Sckizcea 

 pusilla of PuRSH is attributed, on the authority of Timothy Wet- 

 more, to the western part of the State. Mr. V7etmore, who died 

 several years ago, was distinguished as an agricultural writer, and 

 his death was a loss to literature and science. His herbarium was 

 collected while pursuing his education in 1841 - 43, with no in- 

 structor in botany and no reliable books. The family of Mr. Wet- 

 more kindly submitted his herbarium to the inspection of one of 

 our number, and gave the three specimens therein, labelled by him 

 Schizcea pusilla, to the Herbarium of the State : they are a Bo- 

 trychium ; probably a mere form of Botrychmm virginicum. They 

 will be authentically labelled by Professor Daniel C. Eaton of 

 Yale College, and then placed in the Herbarium. 



A necessarily imperfect list of the plants found growing spon- 

 taneously in the State since the publication of the Catalogue of 

 1853, and not included therein, and lists of coast plants found 

 growing in and about the Onondaga lake and on the shores of 

 Lake Erie, and of some plants not found in the State, but so near 

 it as to justify the expectation that they exist within it, are hereto 

 appended in a paper entitled "Facts and Observations touching 

 the Flora of the State." 



The Herbarium of the State Cabinet, which, as an accompani- 

 ment of its Flora by Dr. Torrey, cannot be overvalued — ought to 

 be most carefully preserved. The Regents have taken measures to 

 have it put in a proper case, where it will be secure from dust, 

 from insects, and from the injuries attendant upon careless hand- 

 ling. 



The Herbarium of the late Lewis C. Beck, now the property of 

 the State, is rich in plants of the West, of the South Pacific Ocean, 

 and of Europe and the Indies. It is rich also in the labels of 

 Muhlenbergh, and of many eminent botanists oi this country and 



