INTRODUCTION 



The number of species added to the list of edible mushrooms of the 

 state the past season and herein described and illustrated is 14. In reports 

 49, 51 and 52, the last published as Bulletin of the New York state 

 museum, no. 25, vol. 5, 33 edible and one unwholesome species are 

 described and illustrated. In consequence of recent discoveries of varia- 

 tions in a few of the edible species described and illustrated in the three 

 reports mentioned, and of the great demand for these reports, it has seemed 

 desirable to revise the illustrations and descriptions where needful and to 

 incorporate the whole in the present memoir with that part of the state 

 botanist's report for 1899 relating to edible fungi. Accordingly an attempt 

 has been made to arrange both descriptions and illustrations as far as pos- 

 sible in harmony with their natural and generic relations to each other. 

 In doing this it has been necessary in many cases to change the number- 

 ing of the plates and to reproduce and rearrange some of the illustra- 

 tions on the plates. This memoir constitutes the second volume of descrip- 

 tions and illustrations of New York species of edible and unwholesome 

 mushrooms. 



