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STATE BOARD OF AGRICULTURE. 



PRELIMINARY LIST OF CERTAIN FAMILIES OF SAPROPHYTIC 



FUNGI OF MICHIGAN. 



PREPARED BY B. O. LONGYEAR, ASSISTED BY PROFESSOR C. F. WHEELER. 



The following list is composed of species identified from material col- 

 lected during part of three seasons and is preserved in the herbarium. 

 Some of this was collected at Lewiston, Montmorency county, by Dr. 

 Beal. Several other species from the same locality were furnished by H. 

 C. Beardslee. A portion of the species have been collected during one- 

 day trips in different parts of Ingham county, but the greater part of 

 them have been from woods and fields in the immediate vicinity of the 

 College, and mostly during spare hours of time. Three species new to 

 science have been found, and were named by Professor Peck of Albany, 

 New York, but considerable material still remains unidentified. 



We are indebted to the above botanist for the identification of a num- 

 ber of species. To the present time, so far as we know, this is the 

 first published list of these families of fungi for Michigan. This is 

 not due to any lack of these plants, but only proves the need of careful 

 field work and study of our fungus flora. 



Such knowledge is becoming more desirable because of the inquiries 

 of persons wishing to collect the edible kinds. About forty of the 

 species in these lists are classed as edible, and a number of them have 

 been personally tested. 



Those species in which any doubt exists as to identity are followed 

 by an interrogation mark, thus — ? 



var. 



var. 



Aagaricus campestris L. 



" " L. 



Vitt. 

 Aagaricus campestris L. 



" Rodmani Pk. 

 Vitt. 

 Amanita muscaria Fr. 



" rubescens Fr. 



" verna Fr. 

 Amanitopsis vaginata Roze. 

 Armillaria mellea Vahl. 

 Boletus brevipes Pk. 



" Clintonianus Pk. 



" felleus Bull. 



" flavidus Fr. 



" piperatus Bull. 



" scaber Fr. 



" cyanescens Bull. 

 Calocera cornea Fr. 

 Cantharellus aurantiacus Wulf. 



" cibarius Fr. 



" dichotomus Pk. 



Claudopus nidulans (Pers.) Pk. 

 Clavaria botrytes Pers. 



" cioerea Bull. 



" leucotephra B. & C. 



HYMENOMYCETES. 



Clitocybe dealbata Sow. 

 pratensis " caespitosa Pk. 



" cyathiformis Bull. (Lewiston, 

 silvicola Mich., Beardplee.) 



Clitocybe illudens Schw. 



" infundibuliformis Schaeff. 



" sinopica Fr. 



" virens Scop. 

 Clitopilus abortivus B. & C. 



" csespitosus Pk. 



" micropus Pk. 



" prunulus Scop. 

 Collybia abundans Pk. (Beardslee.) 



" confluens Pers. 

 dryophila Bull. 



" expallens Pk. 



" myriadopbylla Pk. 

 platyphylla Fr. 



" radicata Relh. 



" spinulifera Pk. 



" succosa Pk. 



" velutipes Curt. 

 Coniophora arida Karst? 

 Copriuus atramentarius Fr. 



" comatus Fr. 



" fimetarius var. macrorhiza Fr. 



