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Loaf, Long Branch, the woods toward Jamesville, the vicinity of 
Baldwinsville, were all cherished haunts of this year’s mushroom 
hunters. In a few hours collecting over some wooded hillsides 
and damp meadows near the Split Rock road, one hundred and 
twenty-five species were counted, and these of course of the more 
evident varieties; for the most part, we left Ascomycetes, Myx- 
omycetes, etc., severely alone. 
A fact noted, due no doubt to the favorable season, was that 
measurements of many species far exceeded those given in books 
of reference. For example, Armillaria mellea grew 25 cm. tall, 
instead of 15 cm. as it was said to do. 
In those same Split Rock woods, we found many very inter- 
esting plants;—among them the black, shaggy Strobilomyces, 
one of the pore-fungi said not to be very common; the in- 
digo Lactarius where the ordinary milky juice, characteristic 
of the genus is replaced by a bright blue fluid. A number of 
other Lactarii were found—the golden brown L. volemus and 
L. corrugis, the yellow-spotted L. chrysorrheus, the zoned L. de- 
lictosus, and the white L. piperatus with an extremely hot flavor 
of pepper. Russula is an allied genus, easily recognized and usu- 
ally beautiful. We studied five or six species of that,—the dull 
brown capped R. adusta, the delicate green FR. virescens, the crim- 
son R. emetica (said to be poisonous), R. fragilis and R. aluta- 
cea. A very unusual specimen of the last was found near the St. 
Lawrence river, having a small perfect plant growing directly 
from the pileus of a large one. Some dead leaves had drifted 
across the larger plant but the small plant was firmly attached 
and seemed part of the other. Professor Atkinson wrote that he ~ 
had never observed a case of the kind. Something similar was 
noticed inTricholoma personatum where the large plant was part- 
ly covered with straw and bore two small imperfect pilei on its 
upper surface. In neither case could it have been parasitism, for 
the small plants were clearly of the same species as their support- 
ets: 
While we studied Agarics chiefly, we identified occasional 
species belonging to genera of the Polyporaceae,—especially 
Boletus, Polyporus, and the beefsteak fungus, Fistulina. Also 
