CATALOGUE. 

 FUNGI. 



By S. M. TRACY and F. S. 



Among the more striking features of the fungus flora of 

 the region which the collection represents may be men- 

 tioned the great abundance of the Uredinales and Sphserlales. 

 The Erysibacese would have been abundant later in the 

 season, though only two species were found in condition to 

 collect. Perisporacese were entirely lacking, as were also the 

 Hysteriales, though the latter were persistently sought for 

 everywhere. The Pezizales are represented by only two 

 species. The Helvellales do not appear in the list, but fine 

 specimens of Morchella and Gyromitra were observed in the 

 high spruce woods. The Agaricacese are very scantily rep- 

 resented in the list, but they were really quite abundant in 

 moist locations at the higher altitudes. Lack of time and 

 of facilities for properly drying the specimens prevented 

 collecting them. Among the Sphseriales which constitute 

 nearly a third of all the species collected, and of which con- 

 siderably over one-half proved to be undescribed, the almost 

 entire absence of such common eastern genera as Hypoxylon 

 and Valsa is to be noted, as well as the great abundance of 

 Lopliiostomatacese, a family rarely found by eastern col- 

 lectors. The Dothideales and Hypocreales are each repre- 

 sented by a single species only. 



It is interesting to note that of the entire collection only 

 the following five species were taken above timber line: 

 Schizonella melogramma, Puccinia acrophila, P. Claytoniatum, 

 P. Pimpinellas and Patinella Crandallii. The smallness of this 

 list is to be accounted for in great part by the fact that our 



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