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lected but five plants, where usually the season gives me twenty-five 
or thirty. It affects swamps, and cannot be determined without the 
aid of a microscope. To me its two distinguishing features are its 
coarsely nodulose spores and grayish white gills. 
Gomphidius gracilis B. & Br. and Gomphidius maculatus Fr. were 
both found in a swamp under pines in sphagnum and were much 
larger than in 1909 and also more typical. Berkeley’s illustration 
of G. gracilis does not agree with his description. G. vinicolor Pk. 
suggests to me G. gracilis B. & Br. 
On September 10 I found an interesting collection of Entoloma 
rhodopolium Fr. and Entoloma nidorosum Fr.; they grew together, 
gregariously, in a space of about 4 feet in diameter in a swamp wherein 
I find these species year after year. I picked in all about 40 specimens 
and placed them in two piles according to presence or absence of 
odor. About two hours elapsed before I reached home and when I 
opened the packages the odor had entirely evaporated from the plants 
I called E. nidorosum. I have done this same thing for three succes- 
sive years with like results. I believe the difference between these 
two species, if any exists, should be confined to stature; E. rhodo- 
polium being larger than E. nidorosum. Fries in Hymenomycetes 
Europaei, p. 196, says that E. nidorosum is “fragile with a strong 
alcaline odor; much thinner than E. rhodopolium, which is somewhat 
like it.” 
Tricholoma ustale Fr., or if not that plant then a plant belonging 
to that group, showed itself for the first time September 15, and 
continued in limited number for ten (10) weeks. The plants were 
smaller than usual. It grows in gravelly soil in sphagnum under 
scrub pines in company with Hygrophorus hypothejus Fr. and Cantharel- 
lus dichotomus Pk. Barla and Fries both give very good illustrations 
of this Tricholoma as I have found it for three successive seasons. 
Hygrophorus laurae Morgan, H. flavodiscus Frost and H. fuligineus 
Frost were very scarce owing to the prevailing drought. I found a 
number of plants that had emerged from the ground only to dry up 
before maturity. I wonder how many know that H. laurae possesses 
the property of staining one's fingers as though dyed with sumach? 
Such is my experience. 
A most interesting and very handsome Polyporus may be found 
occasionally upon old and decayed apple trees. It is P. admirabilis 
Pk. For description see Bulletin of the Torrey Botanical Club, 26, 
