Jan., 1910.] Notes on a Collection of Boletaceae. 267 



NOTES ON A COLLECTION OF BOLETACEAE.* 



Bruce Fink. 



The summer of 1909 was favorable for the development of 

 fleshy ftmgi on account of the unusually large rainfall. During 

 the first part of August, the writer was at "Beechwood Camp" 

 with a party of students. The month was very wet, and fleshy 

 fungi were brought in and studied in large numbers. The tables 

 were daily covered with an array of Russulae, Lactariae, Aman- 

 itae, Boleti, and other forms, which altogether gave an assort- 

 ment of forms, sizes, and colors seldom seen in these days of 

 depleted forest lands. While students were working on the 

 agarics, the writer gave his attention to the Boletaceae, collecting 

 and making careful notes of each species. The result was fourteen 

 species, some of them not previously reported from Ohio. 



"Beechwood Camp" is located in an almost virgin forest, five 

 miles north of Oxford, Ohio. Beech trees form the facies over all 

 the area, except the flood-plain of Tallawanda Creek, where these 

 are replaced by the plane (sycamore) trees. The forest covers 200 

 acres. Large trees abound, and many trees have been allowed to 

 fall and decay, so that stumps and logs are abundant, on which 

 fungi are plentiful in wet weather. 



After the collecting was done at "Beechwood Camp," the last 

 two weeks of August were spent in the foothills of the Cumberland 

 Mountains, east of Berea, Kentucky. The rainfall had been 

 abundant there also, and the fleshy fungi were growing in such 

 size and profusion as we can never hope to see again in Ohio, since 

 the forests are so largely removed. Special attention was again 

 given to the Boletaceae and twenty-four species were collected, 

 se\"eral of which were unknown from Kentucky. Some of the 

 species collected contained specimens of unusual size, plants 

 twenty cm. across being collected several times. 



Twenty-eight (28) species were collected in the two locaHties, 

 during the month. This is not a large number; but the Boletaceae 

 are rare plants, and only seventy-five species are given for North 

 America, including the West Indies. 



Thanks are due to a number of persons for aid in the work. 

 Mr. Hugh Willard Fink was a companion and efficient aid in 

 nearly all of the collecting, and acted as scribe in the note-taking. 

 Indeed, without the help that he was able to give, the work done 

 could not have been accomplished in the time at hand. Professor 

 G. D. Smith, of Richmond, Kentucky, was present during the 

 study in the Kentucky locality, and aided in the collecting and 

 photographing and in becoming acquainted with the plants. 



* Reported at the meeting of the Ohio Academy of Science, Akron, 

 Xov. 2.5, 1910. 



