New York State Museum 



REPORT 



OF THE 



STATE BOTANIST 



1899 



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



Gentlemen : I have the honor of submitting to you my report of 

 work done in the botanical department of the state museum during 

 the year 1899. 



Specimens of plants for the herbarium have been collected in the 

 counties of Albany, Cayuga, Columbia, Lewis, Oswego, Saratoga, St 

 Lawrence, Sullivan, Ulster, Rensselaer, Warren and Wayne. Speci- 

 mens have been received from correspondents either as contribu- 

 tions or for identification that were collected in the counties of 

 Albany, Erie, Essex, Cattaraugus, Oneida, Onondaga, Ontario, Otsego, 

 Schoharie, St Lawrence and Tioga. The number of species of 

 which specimens have been added to the herbarium is 333. Of these 

 47 were not before represented in it and the remaining 286 are new 

 varieties or forms, or improved specimens of species already imper- 

 fectly represented. The number of species not before reported but 

 now given as additions to our flora is 62. Some of these consist of 

 former varieties now raised to the rank of species. Of the newly 

 reported species 20 are deemed new and are now described as such. 

 All of these are fungi. 



A list of the names of the species of which specimens have been 

 added to the herbarium is marked A. 



A list of the names of the species contributed and of their respec- 

 tive contributors is marked B. This list contains the names of 36 

 contributors of whom 19 have sent specimens collected beyond our 

 state limits. 



The 62 species not before reported as belonging to our flora are 

 noticed in a part of the report marked C. This includes some 



