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this attractive species is not edible. It is a conspicuous yellow Toad- 

 stool, a gill-fungus that grows most commonly about old stumps or 

 dead trees or rotting gate-posts. The color throughout in young speci- 

 mens is a rich saffron yellow, but in old plants the color becomes sordid 

 or brownish. The stems may be three-fourths inch in diameter or thicker, 

 and the plants eight or ten inches high. This interesting point can be 

 easily verified, namely, that the gill-portion (or under side of the cap) 

 is phosphorescent, /. e. luminous after dark; take a fresh young specimen 

 to the house and in a dark room the experiment can be tried. This 

 species is abundant in the summer and early fall. 



Supt. J. N. Baker reports a Puff-ball at Bowling Green 14 inches 

 in diameter. The dimensions of a Po-ly'-po-rus sul-fu'-re-us, the Sul- 

 phur-colored Pol'-ypore, "27 inches across the top, 16 inches deep and 

 7 or 8 inches thick, weight about 10 lbs.," are reported by Miss Myrtle 

 Leighley, Hartville, Ohio. 



Mr. Willis H. Ropes, member of the Boston Mycological Club, says 

 "last Monday we had eighty-eight varieties on the plates" at Salem, 

 Mass., where Mushroom exhibitions and lectures are being held. 



Two unusual specimens of the Col-lyb'-i-a rad-i-ca'-ta were found 

 in a woods near Sandusky during the summer. They were growing on 

 a rotten log — an unusual habitat. The "root," /. e. lower tapering end 

 of the stem, could not penetrate the rather firm though very rotten wood 

 and therefore had not at all developed ; it was a "root-less" rad-i-ca'-ta. 

 The other specimen had developed its "root" — but it was turned at a 

 right angle following the surface of the matrix on which it rested. This 

 neat edible species is a very common one, its root-like stem below being 

 very characteristic; we hope to have a half-tone of it in the Bulletin 

 later. 



Next Year. — Thanks are extended to all who have taken interest 

 in the Bulletin and mycological matters in general, and now also especi- 

 ally to those who have kindly sent the subscription for 1904! I have lately 

 persuaded myself to .say that the Bulletin will be issued on the same 

 basis next year, "price 10 cents." This amount pays but a portion of 

 the cash expense, but the generosity of interested "persons with means" 

 will doubtless enable me to defray all costs. Some friends in foreign 

 countries have requested the copies as issued, and for them I am obliged 

 to fix the price at 25 cents, to cover postage. Those sending 10 cents 

 now will receive all the 1908 Numbers issued — as long as copies are 

 available. The above announcement has been called forth prematurely — 

 though the contribution box is already open; other numbers of the Bul- 

 letin will appear this year. 



The Pol'-y-pore.s, or Pore-Fungi. — This large group is called 

 Pol-y'-oo-ra-ce-ae (sound the "y" like short "i"), because there is a 

 honey-combed fruiting surface on the lower side of the plants ; in 

 other words, there are many pores, which is the real meaning of the 

 name of the group. They are also called Bracket-fungi or Shelf-fungi, 

 alluding to the general form and method of attachment to trees, logs and 

 stumps, where most of the species arc to be found. They are the com- 

 monest of all fungi and everyone who ever went to the woods has .seen 

 them. The cuts shown will give a fair idea of some of the striking forms 

 — but the subject will be taken up in a later Bulletin. 



It should perhaps be explained at once that the name of the group 

 is formed from the name Po-ly'-po-rus which was given to these char- 

 acteristic plants by the early botanists. In 1S.51 Fries broke up the group 

 (ge'-nus) into three gen'-er-a (this is the plural for ge'-nus), using 

 the names for them as follows: !-o'-iiu's. Pol-v-stic'-tus and Po'-ri-a 



