REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST 



To the Regents of the University of the State of New York : 



Gentlemen.— I have the honor of communicating' to you the fol- 

 lowing- report : 



Specimens of plants for the State Herbarium have been collected 

 and prepared by the Botanist during the past year in the counties 

 of Albany, Columbia, Cattaraugus, Dutchess, Essex, Greene, Ham- 

 ilton, Oneida, Oswego, Putnam, Rensselaer, Steuben and Warren. 



Specimens contributed by correspondents have been collected in 

 the counties of Dutchess, Onondaga, Ontario, Orleans, Oswego, St. 

 Lawrence and Westchester. 



Specimens of 269 species of plants have been added to the Herb- 

 arium, of which 254 were collected by the Botanist and 15 were 

 contributed. Of the former 72 are new to the Herbarium, of the 

 latter 11. The number of species represented in the Herbarium 

 has, therefore, been increased by 83. Of the remaining 186 species, 

 the specimens represent forms or varieties not before represented or 

 not well shown, or are specimens intended to accompany the trunk 

 sections now being made of the trees of the State. Among the 

 species not before represented in the Herbarium are 36 species of 

 fungi considered new to science and described as such in another 

 part of this report. A list of the species of which specimens have 

 been added to the'Herbarium is marked A. 



It seems desirable that the examples of trunk sections of the trees 

 of the State, now being collected, should be accompanied by speci- 

 mens of a branch or branches bearing the leaves, flowers and fruit. 

 These, when properly labeled, mounted and placed with their 

 respective wood sections, will make the illustration of the character 

 of the tree much more complete and will afford a material aid to the 

 student and the pubUc in acquiring a familiar knowledge of the 

 trees of the State and their names. Specimens have been collected 

 representing 26 species of our trees. The names of these constitute 

 the last 26 names in the list marked A. 



Specimens of plants have been contributed by 22 contributors. 

 Among these contributions are many extra limital species not 



