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Wisconsin. Six hundred species were collected in Kewaunee 
county in the Green Bay Peninsula. ost of the inhabitants, 
expecially Bohemians and French, were familiar with a number 
of the edible varieties. ‘The honey-mushroom, Armillaria mellea, 
the butter-mushroom as they call it, Boletus Clintonianus, and 
the copper-mushroom, Boletus versipellis, are among those most 
commonly collected for foo 
Water color reproductions and photographs of some excep- 
tional forms were shown. One of the rat-tail fungus (Collybia 
vadicata) which was twenty-five inches high, a jelly-cup (Aceta- 
bula vulgaris) six inches broad, and the brain-fungus ( Naemotelia 
encephala) three inches across. This last is remarkably brain- 
like in both internal and external appearance. 
Several rare species were reported; one of the earth stars 
(Geaster pectinatus) was collected from two localities. This 
species is easily identified by the striations at the base of the 
puff-ball portion and by its slender stipe. The bone-fungus 
(Polyporus osseus) the occurrence of which in America has al- 
ways been doubtful was also found during two seasons. It is 
one of the white, somewhat imbricated forms which, while watery 
and soft when fresh, b tremely hard and bony when dry. 
The only specimen of Scutiger subradicata Murrill reported 
since the type specimen was described, differed from it only in 
having a longer and more slender stem. 
Water color paintings of two cup fungi (Pseudoplectania 
melaena and Detonia fulgens) had been painted to com a 
group without knowing that they both were very rare in America. 
Two species of wood staining fungi (Chlorésplenium) wi 
discussed. Specimens of what was undoubtedly Chloro splenium 
versiforme had been collected on several ash log 
portions of the wood stained blue-green. The ae: aoe 
beneath the fungus was usually uncolored. It does not seem 
probable that in the five logs examined the wood had been first 
stained by the other species (Chlorosplenium aeruginosum) and 
the stained wood later covered with fruit of Chlorosplenium 
versiforme. It would seem from his observations that both 
species stain the wood. 
