NATURAL HISTORY SURVEY 



The report on the Higher Fungi of the area covered by the 

 Natural History Survey will be issued in parts, prepared by 

 Dr. Will Sayer Moffatt, and will constitute Bulletin No. VII. 



The present report constitutes the first part of this bulletin 

 and includes descriptions, with many figures, of the Mushroom- 

 like Fungi of Chicago and vicinity. Owing to their economic 

 value, these plants possess an interest to the epicurean as well 

 as to the botanist, and it is believed that the layman will be quite 

 as much interested in the work as the more serious student. 



The territoiy covered by the Survey includes Cook and Du- 

 Page counties and the nine north townships of Will County, in 

 Illinois, with a portion of Lake County, Indiana. This gives an 

 area of about forty-eight or fifty miles square, or a land surface 

 of nearly 1,800 square miles. 



