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same way examine another (Fig. 4); here the parasite is larger and 

 requires more nourishment, consequently the root has changed its 

 course, all the descending fluids passing into the parasite, while 

 that portion beyond the parasite has dwindled down to less than half 

 its former size; later it decays and falls away, leaving the whole root 

 to the parasite, which is so well supplied that its cells always contain 

 quantities of starch, while there is so much tannin in its juice, that a 

 very good ink may 1)3 made by simply adding to it a small quantity 

 of copperas, or sulphate of iron. — S. T. Fergus, West Chester, Pa. 



Explanation of Plate r. — Fig 1. A young plant; the beech root 

 was attached at A. 



Figure 2. A vertical section from the lower part of Fig. 1. A, the 

 point at which the beech root was attached. 



Figure 3. Section through beech root, B, and parasite, C. The beech 

 root healthy throughout. 



Figure 4. Section through beech root, 1>, and parasite, ('. The 

 beech root at B in a- dying condition. 



Kentucky Fungi. 



A sojourn of a couple of weeks at Norwood near Somerset, 

 Pulaski Co., Kentucky, gave us thirty figures of fleshy or putres- 

 cent Fungi and upwards of fifty species of the more durable kinds, 

 all new to our herbarium. We think we have five or six new 

 species but these must remain awhile in the stocks to be well con- 

 sidered before being launched forth upon their independent being. 

 New species <.»f Laetarii are easy enough to find and Mr. Berkeley 

 asserts that "the warmer states of North America abound with 

 Laetarii quite different from the European species'' but no one 

 need expect to disentangle them unless he persistently figures and 

 studies all the different forms he meets with. The same remarks 

 apply to the Boleti. 



It is not my purpose to catalogue everything observed, but 

 merely to notice some of the more interesting species. 



Agaricus palypyramis, B. & ('. This is a large, coarse, heavy 

 Amanita, the pileus studded with thick warts and the stipe rooting 

 3 or 4 inches into the ground. T find the spores subelliptic, with a 

 slight oblique apiculus and measuring .009X.007 mm. 



Agaricus Leaianus, Berk. This beautiful Mycena of the 

 Cincinnati Catalogue, seems to be abuudant everywhere east of the 

 Mississippi. Its spores measure .0090X.OO56 mm. 



Agaricus Fenzlii, Schulz., var. My specimen is this species 

 except the stipe in not "sulphureo." Annularias are extremely 

 scarce everywhere. I have never known of an}- except A. la^vis, 

 Krombh., being found in North America before. 



Cortinarius squamulosus, Peck., ranges from New Eng- 

 land down here unchanged. 



Russula virescens, Schaejf'. A new species to us and fur- 

 nishes a beautiful figure. 



Lactarius Indigo, Sckw. This is deep blue within and with- 



