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REPORT 
OF THE 
STATE BOTANIST 
1897 
To the Honorable the Regents of the University of the State of New 
York 
Gentlemen: I have the honor of submitting to you the following 
report. 
Since the date of my last report, specimens of plants of the state 
have been collected by the botanist in the counties of Albany, Essex, 
Rensselaer, Saratoga and Ulster. 
Specimens have been received from correspondents who collected 
them in the counties of Cayuga, Dutchess, Essex, Genesee, Hamil¬ 
ton, Monroe, Onondaga, St Lawrence and Suffolk. 
The whole number of species represented by the specimens added 
to the herbarium is 279, of which 258 are represented by the col¬ 
lections of the botanist, 21 by those of his correspondents. The 
number of species new to the herbarium is 49, of which 42 are 
represented by collected specimens, 7 by contributed specimens. 
Among these are 26 species which are considered new to science 
and are therefore described as new species. 
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 of which specimens have been 
contributed or received for identification, together with the names 
of their respective contributors is marked B. 
A record has been made of the species new to our flora, giving the 
locality in which they were found and the time of their collection, 
