REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I915 9 



Additions to the herbarium. The number of specimens which 

 have been added to the herbarium during the past year from cur- 

 rent collections is 584, from contributions and exchanges 396, a 

 total of 980 specimens, representing 938 species, in addition to more 

 than 400 additional specimens which have been mounted from the 

 unnamed material accumulated in the past. Of these, 222 species 

 were not previously represented in the herbarium and 30 species and 

 varieties are described as new to science. The number of those who 

 have contributed specimens to the herbarium is 20. This includes 

 those who have sent specimens merely for identification and which 

 were desirable additions to the herbarium. 



Identifications. The State Botanist's office has been called upon 

 to identify or report upon 650 specimens of flowering plants, ferns, 

 mosses, lichens and fungi, by no different persons. 



