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demonstration is a valuable educational feature 
. L. Britton, 
COLLECTING FUNGI IN THE CATSKILLS 
The writer spent two weeks at Arkville, New York, in August, 
1916, and obtained about 400 specimens of fleshy fungi for the 
arden herbarium. A list of these species, with notes on their 
abundance a habitat, will appear in Mycologia. 
rkville is a small village in the edge of Delaware County at 
the southwestern corner of the Catskill region. Mt. Pakatakan, 
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