1900] Webster, — Boleti collected at Alstead, N. H. 173 
below, and perhaps by the Connecticut. I have supposed the plant to 
be a relic of cultivation, as it has been cultivated in Royalton, and the 
colony may have started from a place two miles above the present 
station. A small brook passes through the place and seed may easily 
have been conveyed by the brook to the river. 
In 189o I saw the plant in a cemetery lot one mile up river from 
the established station, and not far from the bank. But itis hardly 
possible that seed could have been carried thence by water agency. 
So far as I know it is not conspicuously spreading.— Levi WILD, 
Franklin, Vt. 
BOLETI COLLECTED AT ALSTEAD, N. H. 
H. WEBSTER. 
A stay of five weeks in the hill town of Alstead, N. H., in July 
and August, 1899, repeated in 1900, has given opportunity for the col- 
lection of many fleshy fungi. Among them, and peculiar to the season, 
are numerous species of Boleti, on which, in view of the increasing 
attention given to these plants, a few notes may not be out of place. 
The collections were made by roadsides, on open and wooded hillsides, 
and in the hollows between the hills, usually in woods. Alstead Centre 
is in the northern part of Cheshire County six miles east from the Con- 
necticut River, at an altitude of 1120 feet. , 
Since the seasons, both in 1899 and 1900, were unusually.dry in the 
region, a large and continuous crop of fleshy fungi was not to be ex- 
pected, and collections on the whole were rather meagre. Neverthe- 
less, here and there a mossy slope, or a springy bank, or a mass of 
water-soaked decaying wood, held moisture enough to prevent the total 
non-appearance of the fungi naturally sought in such places; and 
well-shaded brooksides, swamps, and bogs were explored, not without 
success. Indeed the variety, if. not the abundance of fleshy fungi was 
sufficient to keep interest unflaggingly alive, and to furnish material for 
constant study. 
A word as to the treatment of the material collected may be sug- 
gestive to others similarly situated, especially if they would preserve 
Boleti. The process of drying, usually the stumbling block in the field, 
was asfollows. In the first place a visit was made to the tinsmith, who 
