6 CONNECTICUT GEOL. AND NAT. HIST. SURVEY. [Bull. 



dred and eighty species, included in fifty genera; from Dr. 

 Underwood's, eighty species, in twenty-seven genera; and 

 from Dr. Qinton's, thirty-four species, in twenty-tw^o genera. 

 The species found in the different sections of the state are the 

 same in many cases, as is shown in the Hst appended. The 

 total number of different species listed is three hundred and 

 seventy-five, included in sixty-five different genera. 



The mushrooms collected under the writer's supervision 

 have been carefully dried, pressed, and preserved, forming 

 the basis of a state herbarium of fleshy and woody fungi. The 

 number of each specimen in this herbarium is inserted with the 

 species reported, and thus the plant may be easily referred to. 

 A card catalogue accompanies this herbarium. 



The specimens in the other collections mentioned are also 

 carefully and systematically preserved and are accessible : Mr. 

 Hanmer's private collection at East Hartford, Dr. Under- 

 wood's in the cryptogamic herbarium of Columbia University, 

 and Dr. Clinton's in the herbarium of the Connecticut Experi- 

 ment Station. 



Saccardo's " Sylloge Fungorum " has been adopted as a 

 basis for nomenclature. 



Every effort has been made to have correctly named all 

 specimens collected, and men who have had long experience 

 in determining species have very willingly aided in the work. 

 Nearly all specimens have been submitted for accuracy of de- 

 termination to Professor G. F. Atkinson of the Department of 

 Botany, Cornell University, and to Dr. C. H. Peck, the New 

 York State Botanist. Mr. C. H. Kauffman of the University 

 of Michigan has very kindly identified many specimens of Cor- 

 tinarius. Mr. I. W. Patterson, a student at the Connecticut 

 Agricultural College, has assisted greatly in collecting, drying, 

 pressing, and classifying specimens. The services of all of 

 these gentlemen are greatly appreciated. We are indebted to 

 the libraries of the Massachusetts Agricultural College and of 

 the Connecticut Experiment Station for the loan of scientific 

 literature. 



The writer wishes especially to express his appreciation of 

 the assistance of Dr. Charles Thom, Mycologist for the United 

 States Department of Agriculture in dairy investigations at 



