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many points in common with those of northern Europe, being 
largely of common origin, and the two areas must be studied 
together before either can be properly understood mycologically. 
Our thanks are due the manager of the Grand View Hotel and 
the officials of the Lake Placid Club for many courtesies extended 
during our stay in that delightful region. 
On our return from Lake Placid, we stopped at Albany to 
represent the Garden at the dedicatory exercises of the magnifi- 
several hundred peta from educational institutions located 
in various parts of the wor 
A list of the polypores and boletes collected at Lake Placid 
is here appended. It contains most of the wood-destroying 
species of the region and may serve as a check list for foresters 
and others interested in this destructive group of fungt. 
THE POLYPORES AND BOLETES OF THE LAKE PLACID REGION, 
Numbers below 400 refer to July collections, and those above 
400 to collections made in October. The list of boletes is rather 
small because most of these plants appeared in August. 
POLYPORACEAE. 
ANTRODIA MOLLIs (Sommerf.) Karst. 318. On deciduous wood. 
BJERKANDERA ADUSTA (Willd.) Karst. 373, 466,575. On dead 
deciduous wood; not common. 
CERRENA UNICOLOR (Bull.) Murrill. 332, 630. On deciduous 
wood. 
COLTRICIA PERENNIS (L.) Murrill. 385. Common 
COLTRICIA TOMENTOSA (Fr.) Murrill. 4719, 899. About conifer- 
ous stum 
em SERIALIS (Fr.) Murrill. 355, 587. On coniferous 
wood, 
CoRIOLUS ABIETINUS (Dicks.) Quél. 320. Very common on 
dead balsam fir and other coniferous trees. 
CorRIOLUS BIFORMIS (KI.) Pat. 364. Seen only once. 
CORIOLUS NIGROMARGINATUS (Schw.) Murrill. 329. 
