BOTANICAL GAZETTE. 



spores .00024 X .00032 inch. A. {Amanita) solitanus, Bull., was 

 another fine looking Agaric ; the pileus measured 6-7 inches across, 

 covered with warts more or less erect at disk and tinged with ochre ; 

 lamelliie white or cream color ; sripe solid, unequal, squamose, and 

 even imbricated; bulb very large, rooting below, ring torn. This 

 fungus has always appeared solitary until last summer, when I found 

 two growing very near each other. The Lactarii were variable in size. 

 Lactarius insulcus, Fr. , pileus 4-7 inches broad, margin sometimes 

 distinctly striate, then faintly striate, again without striae ; at times 

 faintly zoned, then plainly zoned, then zoneless; color various shades 

 of yellow, often buff color ; lamelke concolorous ; stipe stuffed or 

 hollow, pale shade of yellow ; spores .00032 of an inch in diameter, 

 milk white and plentiful; taste extremely acrid. The stipes of several 

 of these plants were lacunose. The Ritssidm from eastern Maryland 

 were generally large R. virescens, Fr., came with a pileus as large as 

 an ordinary breakfast plate, metallic green, varying in depth of color, 

 more or less covered with patches or scales from green to ochraceous 

 green and even yeilnw ; margin striate all the way round, then only 

 at intervals ; lamellae white, brittle, more or less forked ; stipe equal, 

 short, stuffed, white; spores .00028 x .0003 of an inch in diameter; 

 taste pleasant. This plant appears in western Maryland with the same 

 variations, but smaller. R. emctica, Fr. , measured 8 inches across 

 pileus, variously shaded from bright red to sage color; lamellae white; 

 stipe white stained with red ; spores 00036 of an inch in diameter ; 

 taste acrid. R. aliitacca, Fr. , was about the same size, with a red 

 pileus; buff colored lamellae and half colored spores ; very mild and 

 pleasant to taste. R. rubra, Fr. , a remarkably handsome plant, the 

 ornament of the woods wherever it grows, with its beautiful, glossy 

 red or deep pink pileus, white lamellae, white or pinkish stipe, and 

 acrid taste, was large and plentiful. 



Boletus luridus, Schteff, from both sections of the State, came glow- 

 ing with color. Pileus 5-6 inches broad, bright red or scarlet shaded 

 into bright yellow at martrin, excessively viscid, shining as if var- 

 nished, convex or expanded; pores convex, at times adnexed, again 

 nearly free, again free, dark brownish red, bright yellow with red 

 around the orifices, then bright orange color; stipes red with brown 

 reticulations, again reticulated with carmine. Heretofore the pileus of 

 this fungus has been slightly tomentose, dark reddish brown, pinkish, 

 and brick-red ; pores free, yellow, with red around the orifices ; spores 

 .0006 X .00038 inch, dark olivaceous green. The flesh of this plant, 

 when eaten into by insects, does not change to blue. I have found 

 this to be the rule without one exception. In eastern Maryland I 

 collected a curious Boletus, the name of which I do not yet know. 

 Two plants seem undecided whether to remain Boleti or to become 

 Agarics One was decidedly lamellated on one side nearly to the 

 margin, the other lamellated only at intervals. The same plant ap- 

 peared about the same time in western Maryland, but lamellated only 

 as the pores reached the stipe. Two specimens of Polyporus applan- 

 atus, Fr., I found growing in short grass about ten yards from an oak 

 tree. The pileus of one plant measured 4 the other 5 inches across. 



