194 Rhodora [SEPTEMBER 
Beyond the bog our objective point was a bit of moist ground 
higher up, where last year grew abundance of Boletinus decipiens. 
Careful search, however, failed to discover it, and perhaps we were 
too early, for August 16, was the date in 1899. Boletus bicolor was 
fruiting, a fungus very easily mistaken for B. miniato-olivaceus var. 
sensibilis, on account of its color, pink and yellow in the older speci- 
mens, its large, soft caps, and its odor, which to some suggests the 
smell of sulphur, to others that of hickory nuts. The red stem, 
yellow at the top, and the scarcely changing yellow flesh mark B. 
bicolor. The other with the long name, has a yellow stem and 
changes quickly to blue. Here also were two fruits of the anomalous 
Paxillus paradoxus, half agaric and half polypore, with soft red 
pileus and general suggestion of Boletus in tint and texture, and 
yellow fleshy lamellae with conspicuous transverse partitions, in this 
case less porous and so less like Boletinus than usual. 
Warned by a rapidly darkening sky, and by approaching shocks 
of thunder, we cut short our search and hurried back to the road, 
` where we found shelter from the shower that speedily followed. 
Satisfied that we had demonstrated the existence of toadstools even 
in a dry, hot season, we were content to let the homeward car carry 
us within a few rods of a wooded hill where we might have found 
Lactarius luteolus, Craterellus Cantharellus, Boletus Peckii, Cantha- 
rellus minor, and Cyclomyces Greenii, all of which have been collected 
there, and perhaps were waiting for us as we passed. At a quarter 
to six we were back again on sterile Boston pavements. 
PLANTAGO ELONGATA IN RHODE IsLAND.—In the July number of 
Ruopora I observe a brief communication on the occurrence of 
Plantago elongata Pursh, or properly, as it seems to me, following the 
unbroken usage of over fifty years, P. pusilla Nutt. 
About 1871 I found the plant along the highway leading from East 
Greenwich, Rhode Island, to the famous forge of General Greene. 
About a quarter of a mile north of the forge, the road passed over a 
sort of gravelly common, where it was quite abundant. 
A year or two afterwards I found it about half a mile south of East 
Greenwich, on the road to Hunt’s bridge. — J. W. Concpon, Mari- 
posa, Cal. 
Vol. 2, No. 20, including pages 159 to 180, was issued August 13, 1900. 
