126 NOVA SCOTIA FUNGI. MACKAY. 



P. applicdtuN Bull. On small stumps, Dutch Villat,a% Ht'x.,.. 

 Sept., JS. 



P. Coldivelli, n. sp. Described in the Educational Review (St. 

 John) of March, 1891, page 172, and in the following 

 month, page 192. Professor A. E. Coldwell found the 

 Agaricus growing on a whale-bone in the Museum of 

 Acadia College, Wolfville. The bone was picked up 

 about two years before on the Yarmouth coast, and was 

 kept for a year and a half in a cool, dark plaec in the 

 Museum. With the specimen, the accompan34ng and 

 other drawings (which have unfortunatel}^ been lost) 

 were also sent and published. The flesh of the fungus 

 was hard throughout, white stem and pileus, greyish 

 underneath. 



Pleurotus Coldwelli ;x';) on a de?:icatod bone of a whale. 



Chas H. Peck, State Botanist of New York, to wliom the 

 specimen was sent, said in his letter of the 19th March, 

 1891 : — '•' The fungus specimen that grew on the bone of 

 a whale reached me this morning. The habitat is cer- 

 tainly a curious one, and one on which I should not expect 

 such a fungus to grow. But these plants, like others, 

 have the power to adapt themselves to some extent to 

 circumstances. As to the species, the specimen does not 

 agree rigidly with any description known to me, but is 

 apparently closely allied to Pleiirotiis panioleacAis Fr. 

 and P. puineti Fr. Its spores are of the same size and 



