100 ROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



HY.MENOMYCETEAE OF ROCHESTER, N. Y., AND 



VICINITY. 

 By Fred S. Boughtox. 



The following Hynienomycetese. or fleshy fungi, numhering 319 

 species and varieties, were collected by the writer in Rochester, 

 Pittsford, Perinton, Alendon and vicinity. References to the reports 

 of Dr. C. H. Peck are given in parentheses. 



CLASS FUNGI. 

 Sub-class Basidiomycetes. 

 Cohort Hj'menomycetes. Gr. — a membrane, a fruit-bearing surface ; 

 Gr. — a mushroom. 



Family I. — Ag.\ricace^. 



Series I. — Leucospor.e. Gr. — white ; Gr. — seed. White spored. 



Amanita. 

 (A name given to some esculent fungi by Galen, perhaps from Mount 

 Amanus.) 



1. Amanita plialloides Fr. (Pk. 1895) — phallus-like Amanita. Woods, 



Rochester, Bushnells Basin and vicinity, common, deadly poisonous. 



2. A. plialloides, gray var., same habitat as the last, not common, deadly 



poisonous. 



3. A. rerna Bull. (Pk. 1895.) A variety of A. phalloides, not common, 



deadly poisonous. 



4. A. spreta Pk.— hated. Woods, Pittsford, not common, poisonous. 



5. A. muscaria Linn. (Pk. 1895) — Fly Amanita. Poisonous, common 



throughout the county. The Germans use the caps, immersed in 

 milk, to kill flies. 



6. A. Caesarea Scop. (Pk. 1895) — King-like Caesars mushroom. Pitts- 



ford. Not common, edible. 



7. A. rubescens Pers. (Pk. 1895) — reddish Amanita. Seneca Park, Pitts- 



ford, Bushnells Basin, common, edible. 



8. A. Frostiana Pk. Pittsford, not common, poisonous. 



9. A. sp. — A species new to me. Gray in color, with pileus covered with 



warts. Woods, Pittsford. 



10. A. paiitlierina DC— Bushnells Basin, not tested. 



11. A. radioata Pk. — Rochester, not tested. 



12. A. strobiliformis \"\n.—Strobilis, a pine cone. Rochester, edible. 



