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pilei were 8-10 inches across; stipes 7-1 r inches high. A. {Pleitrohis) 

 osireatiis, Jacq., grew in large bunches on the projecting roots of an 

 old tree. How it survived the rough usage of the culinary depart- 

 ment was a marvel. It grew in iront of the kitchen door of a large 

 hotel where hot and cold water were alike poured out. For one week 

 it came successively. The spores were white, .0003X 00020 in. and so 

 plentiful that durina; the process of drying its surroundings were as 

 white as if flour had been sifted. A. {PhoUota) adiposusy Fr., appear- 

 ed in large tufts on a Morns alba tree. The large bright yellow pilei, 

 most of them 7 inches across, covered with dark brown superficial 

 scales, supported on stipes 5^-2 inches high, one inch thick, were very 

 beautiful and attractive. It grew not only in dense clusters in the fork 

 of the tree, but aspired to the first branches. On the third of October 

 I met with this Agaric growing luxuriantly in the crevices of the bark 

 and on thfe branches of a Moms alba in an adjacent street. The spores 

 are ferruginous ; .00022X. 00032 inch. Caiithafrlhis Jloccosus, ^ch.w., 

 was beautifully represented in Carroll county. The largest measured 

 9 14 inches across the pileus, stipe 10 inches high. It grows gregarious 

 and in bunches, several pilei branching from the same stipe. 



The beautiful little Marasmius rotiila, Fr. , still has mortuary as- 

 S'^ciations from my finding it growing on dead sticks that had fallen 

 across and around a marble slab that covered the remains of one of 

 the first settlers, in Carroll county, a native of Lancashire, England, 

 and a ])erson of some note, who died in 1796, a: the good old age of 

 79 years. In some instances it grew in little tufts, in others it was 

 distributed over the entire length of the sticks, giving them at a short 

 distance the appearance of long spikes of tiny white flowers. Many 

 of the pilei were immature, but those that were perfect measured from 

 one quarter to three quarters of an inch across. The umbilicate pli- 

 cate pileus with crenate margin ; dark red or brown bristle-like stipe, 

 wavy and often branched, combine in making the prettiest little fun- 

 gus I know Boletus litridits, Fr. , was large and plentiful also Boletus 

 modestus. Peck. Boletus fcllens. Bull., was small and scarce. I have 

 frequently collected this ]jlant in the woods near Baltimore very large, 

 at times 12 inches across the pileus. Its size depends much upon the 

 soil and the situation in which it grows. 



On the Blue Ridge Mountains I found the same species of fungi 

 that I had collected in lower lands as well as in the vicinity of Balti- 

 m,ore. The highest summit of these mountains in Maryland is High 

 Rock. Its top is 1,500 feet above mean tide. Its slopes are inhabit- 

 ed by trees of greater or less size according to the de[)th of the soil. It 

 was on one of these slopes that 1 collected the largest number of 

 plants. Fistulina liepatica, Fr. , about the average size was plentiful 

 on the trunks of oak trees, and on old oak stum[)s. One could have 

 feasted on this "vegetable beefsteak" had they firlt so disposed. A. 

 oirella, as I have alreidv stated, grew in large rings, but dwarfed in 

 size. Cantharellus cibarius, Fr. , also grew in rin^s, but it was small. 

 Polyporus nidulans, Fr. , very small, and plentiful on dead sticks. 

 Lyeoperdon geinmatuni, Fr. , grew in large chisters, small, about half the 

 usual size. That beautiful little fungus ^4. ( Cl/toeybe) odorus,'Bu]\., 

 with its bluish-green pileus and* sweet spicv odor, growing gregarious 

 or in tufts, occupied a quiet and obsciire nook. Xylaria polymorpha. 



