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JOURNAL OF 
THE NEW ENGLAND BOTANICAL CLUB 
Vol. 13. April, 1911. No. 148. 
SOME FLESHY FUNGI OF STOW, MASSACHUSETTS. 
SIMON Davis. 
AT intervals during the past nine years, the writer has searched 
the town of Stow, Massachusetts, for species of the fleshy fungi. 
Stow is situated about 26 miles west of Boston and may be reached 
by the Fitchburg division of the Boston and Maine System. The 
township is large in area but small in population; the soil, except in 
the swamps, is largely gravel and sand; the surface is undulating and 
hilly with the exception of Boone's Plain which is level, sandy and 
gravelly with a stunted growth of pines and white birch. The vege- 
tation is rather rich, woods of pine, oak, chestnut, birch and maple 
abounding, with elm, ash, hickory, spruce, hemlock, tamarack and 
cedar interspersed. All the swamps are infested with poisonous 
dogwood, Rhus Vernix, and poisonous ivy, Rhus Toxicodendron, is 
very abundant. 
The largest swamp is least prolific in fleshy fungi owing to the thick 
coarse grass and some other cause that I cannot explain. All but 
the southwesterly part of the township furnishes good territory to 
search, and one piece of swampy ground, which I frequent, is usually 
very productive of pink-spored Agarics and rare species of Amanita,. 
Hygrophorus, Russula, Inocybe, Naucoria and Gomphidius. Except: 
in one locality, I seldom find a Boletus in any of the swamps; this 
place, however, until the past season, has always given me mag- 
nificent specimens of B. spectabilis, clintonianus, eximius, and punc- 
tipes, and Boletinus paluster and cavipes. The farmers of the town 
