JOURNAL 
OF 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. Xl November, 1910. No. 121. 
COLLECTING FUNGI IN COLORADO. 
During the past summer, I spent a part of the month of August 
and September in Colorado, the object of the trip being to study 
and collect fungi in the Rocky Mountains in the vicinity of 
Denver. Leaving New York on the fifteenth of August, after 
a brief stop with friends in Iowa, we arrived in Denver on Satur- 
day, August 20. The first few days were spent with Professor 
Elsworth Bethel, of the East Denver High School, who is one of 
the pioneer mycologists of Colorado, looking over his collections 
of fungi and selecting the more interesting for study, and in 
planning the course of our collecting campaigns. Much of the 
time I was accompanied by Mr. Bethel who, being familiar with 
every part of the state, aided me in selecting the best collecting 
grounds and very kindly contributed all of the material which 
he secured to the Garden collections, and in addition to these, 
numerous other specimens previously collected. 
n the twenty-fourth of August we went by way of the 
Moffat Road, which is well known for its beautiful mountain 
scenery, to Tolland at an elevation of nearly 9,000 feet. Here 
we stopped several days and spent the time exploring the gulches 
and mountainsides in the vicinity, our trips extending up the 
canyon a distance of about eight miles, the highest point reached 
being about 10,000 feet. Above this the trees dwindled into 
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