114- , MICHIGAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



S. M. Keenan, Eloise, Michigan. 



H. T. Blodgett, Liidington. Michijiaii. 



Dr. Post, Lansing, Michigan. 



Chas. J. Davis, Lansing. Michigan. 



C. G. Lloyd of Cincinnati, Ohio, has very kindly aided in the identifica- 

 tion of gasteromycetes. 



We are especially indebted to Prof. Chas. H. Peck of Albany, X. Y., 

 who has given invalnabh^ aid in the identification of material. 



Our own work along this line was begun in 1896 and a list containing 

 268 species of saprophytic fungi and 40 species of myxomycetes Avas pub- 

 lished in the report of the secretary to the t^tate Board of Agriculture for 

 1898. Most of our collecting was at first done in the vicinity of the 

 Agricultural College but the following localities have been visited with 

 reference to a studv of their fungus flora : 



Grand Ledge, Eaton county. 



Island Lake, Hamburg Station, Brighton, Livingston county. 



Stockbridge, Grass Lake and Pleasant Lake, Jackson county. 



Leslie and Onondaga, Ingham count}'. 



Greenville, Montcalm county. 



Mr. Bronson Barlow of Greenville Avas emploj^ed to collect material in 

 the vicinity of that place during Sept. and Oct., 1900, the material being 

 sent to us in moist sphagnum while still fresh. This material furnished 

 a number of rare species. 



Mr. Barlow also collected during a few days in Sept., 1901, in Mar- 

 quette county. 



During the summer of 1901, Prof. C. F. Wheeler spent two weeks at the 

 U. P. Experimental Farm at Chatham, Alger county, and collected con- 

 siderable material. He has also helped in the collection of a large part of 

 the material from which this list is compiled, especially of the species 

 found in the vicinity of the Agricultural College. 



It Avill be seen that only a limited portion of our great State has fur- 

 nished the material here listed, and furthermore considerable of this 

 material still remains unidentified. Moreover but little attention has 

 been given to a study of the Saprophytic Ascomycetes, the Pyrenomycetes 

 in particular have been almost entirely neglected. 



A careful study of the fungus fiora of the pine-bearing regions in the 

 State would doubtless furnish many additions to this list, and the fact 

 that such regions are fast losing their characteristic growth of timber 

 enhances the desirability of obtaining such species. 



From the material collected in the State a number of species new to 

 science have been njimed and several others, not before reported in this 

 country, have been recognized. The identification of dried specimens of 

 fleshy fungi is often a difficult and uncertain mailer especially if no 

 drawings and notes accompany the specimens. Furthermore as there is 

 no handy manual of the American fleshy fungi, such as may be 

 readily obtained for the systematic study of the higher ])lants, there is 

 not much to encourage the local amateur botanists in our State to make 

 an extended and careful study of these plants. It is hoped, hoAvever, that 

 this list although incomplete, and probably somewhat imperfect, may be 

 of use to those interested in a study of the fungus flora of our country 

 and that it may stimulate an interest in such work in this State. 



Saccardo's Sylloge Fungorum has been largely folloAved in the matter 

 of nomenclature and arrangement of species. 



