KEPOKT OF THE BOTANIST. 



To the Honorable the Board of Regents of the University of the State 

 of New York : 



Gentlemen. — I have the honor of communicating to you the 

 following report : 



Specimens of plants for the State Herbarium have been col- 

 lected by the Botanist during the season now closing, in the 

 counties of Albany, Rensselaer, Saratoga, Essex, St. Lawrence, 

 Jefferson, Lewis, Ulster, Orange and Suffolk. Specimens con- 

 tributed by correspondents were collected in the counties of 

 Orleans, Chenango, St. Lawrence, Rensselaer, Richmond and 

 Queens. 



Specimens representing two hundred and sixty-eight species of 

 plants have been added to the Herbarium during the year, of which 

 two hundred and fifty-three were collected by the Botanist and 

 fifteen were contributed. Of the former, one hundred and eight 

 are new to the Herbarium. The others are improved specimens, 

 or such as exhibit some feature or variation in the species which 

 was not well shown by the specimens already possessed. Of the 

 contributed specimens, eleven species were not before repre- 

 sented, thus increasing the number of species now represented by 

 one hundred and nineteen. Among these are forty species of 

 fungi considered new to science. A list of the species of which 

 specimens have been added is marked A. 



Twenty-one persons have contributed specimens. Among the 

 contributions are many extra-limital species not included in the 

 foregoing enumeration. A list of the contributors and of their 

 respective contributions is marked B. 



A record of species not before reported, together with descrip- 

 tions of such as are deemed new, is marked C. 



Remarks concerning species previously reported, a record of 

 new localities of rare plants and descriptions of varieties, will be 

 found in a subdivision marked D. 



