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Ca/iitharellus aurantiacus, Wulf. in Jacy Coll. 

 Fries. 



Merulius auvantiacus^ Pers., Syn, 488. 



Ag. cantharelloides, Bull. 505. 



t)a. a Merulius nigrvpes, D. C. Fl. Fr. 243. 



The flesli is of soft consistence, and it has neither the odor nor 

 taste of the true chanta/relle, and hence not admitted among the 

 eatable mushrooms. Koques' Hist, des Champ. 169. 



Fir woods 

 and pastures. 

 August and 

 Kovember. — 

 ^. C. Schw. 



r Dry-rot. S. Carolina, 

 Meruluis lachrimus, "Wulf. j St. John's Berkley. On 



" destruens, Pers., Syn. 496. ' 



Boletus arl)or€us, Sow. 



the inside of wainscot- 

 ing, hollow trunks, ships, 

 &c. 



The only certain preyentive of this dreadful pest seems to be 

 free circulation of air and impregnation of the wood with a strong 

 solution of corrosive sublimate. It is not improbable that white 

 of egg may, in some cases, answer the same purpose. Our atten- 

 tion is called to a very curious article in the new series of Ann. 

 des Sciences Naturelles, v. i. p. 30, by Dutrochet, on the origin of 

 molds. Crypt. Eng. vii. p. 129 ; Lind., Nat. Syst. 333. In a 

 letter to us from H. W. Kavenel, Esq. furnishing us with locali- 

 ties of fungi in this State, he says, " I laid down a new floor to 

 my bam a few years since, and the greater part has been totally 

 destroyed and reduced to powder. I have discovered this fungus 

 as the cause of the mischief I haA^e also known other instances 

 in this neighborhood (St. John's Berkley, S. C). 



Merulius vastator. Tode. ) ^ /-i • . -r. 

 '-^ . y S. C. ! to Pa. 

 " aureus, Iries. ) 



A diy rot ; also destructive to wooden buildings. 



Dcedalea quercina, L. ] . 



A ' -T- o ■lo.-.f Pennsylvania. 



Aga/iricus guerc%nus, Lmn. Suec. 1241. ) 



This is susceptible of being transformed into amadou (tinder). 



Merat & De L., Diet, de M. M. 213, 1. 



Doidalea suaveolens, Bull. 



Boletus " Bull. t. 310. 



Employed, since 1676, in phthisis. J. C. Enslin wrote a thesis 



upon the plant (Diss. Erlangiae, 1785). Auc. Journ. de Med. 



