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The number of fungi secured was far greater than T had antic- 
ipated. The season was exceptionally good and the weather 
unusually favorable both for collecting and preparing the speci- 
mens. Four boxes, containing 732 field numbers, or about 
2,000 specimens, accompanied by descriptive notes, were sent 
to New York at the end of two weeks’ stay in Seattle. It is 
estimated that over 100 species new to science are represented 
in this collection. 
On October 26, a visit was made to Tacoma Prairies, about 
fifty miles south of Seattle. During the forenoon, the shores 
of a lake to the north of the prairie proper were explored and 
similar conditions to those at Seattle were encountered, although 
a number of species new to our collection were obtained. Here 
in the forest of Abies grandis, fine specimens of Fomes Laricis, 
a medicinal polypore rare in America, were found on fallen 
trunks; also a remarkable “fairy ring’’ one hundred feet in 
circumference formed by seventy-seven sporophores of a species 
of Tricholoma, some of them six inches in diameter. 
The prairies are formed by a terminal moraine of consider- 
able extent, the soil of which is so sterile that very little cover 
is found upon it. A short, slender grass, a resurrection moss, a 
pretty violet, one or two hawkweeds, and clumps of young 
Abies grandis just arriving after so long a time from the adjacent 
forest, with scattered specimens of Pinus contorta, constitute the 
chief vegetation in the autumn season. A single species of 
gill-fungus and a few puffballs grew in the open on these prairies, 
but a number of species, many of them similar to those of the 
pine barrens and peat bogs about Seattle, were found in the 
shade of the clumps of young fir trees. 
The pleasure of the Tacoma trip was much enhanced by the 
splendid views obtained of Mt. Rainier, whose giant, snow- 
capped cone rises to the height of 14,500 feet above the coastal 
plains. 
On Friday, November 3, we left Seattle for Salem, Oregon, 
arriving at 10 P.M. It had been our intention to do some col- 
lecting in the vicinity of Salem with Professor Morton E. Peck, 
of Willamette University, but we found by conference with him 
