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this state, many of them described as new, and the latter having 
sent nearly 2,500 species from North Carolina to Berkeley in 
London for determination, a large percentage of which were pub- 
lished as new species under the joint authorship of Berkeley and 
Curtis. The condition of all these early collections, even when 
they still exist, together with the brevity of the descriptions drawn 
from them originally, makes it necessary in many cases to study 
recent collections in order to properly understand the relation- 
ships of a given species. 
Among the gill-fungi collected, species of Lactarius, Russula, 
Amanita, Amanitopsis, Cortinarius, Marasmius, Collybia, Mycena, 
Cantharellus, Pleurotus, Crepidotus and Hygrophorus, were quite 
mon, while many other genera were represented more or less 
sparingly. 
Lactarius voleneus and L. piperatus were very abundant, while 
L. lignyotus, L. fuliginosus, L. torminosus, and several other 
species were frequently seen. Aussz/a was found in various col- 
ors, white, yellow, red, olive and green, RK. emetica, R. foetida 
and RX. virescens being common. All of the species of Cantha- 
rellus usually found in the eastern United States were repre- 
ente cibartus, C. aurantiacus and C. floccosus being common. 
Aires Palos was rather common, varying from pure white 
to bla n color, while A. caesarea, A. solitaria, A. rubescens 
and certain ae species were € several times collected, mant- 
topsis vaginata and A, farinosa were exceedingly common. 
Chitocybe laccata was just beginning to be abundant, and C. ilu- 
dens was found once. Cortinarius was represented by about six 
species, several of them common. Paxillus rhodoxanthus was 
very common along the roadsides and was frequently mistaken 
for a Boletus, the upper surface being very similar to certain 
members of this genus. Collybia radicata, usually so abundant, 
was very rare, but C. dryophila was more common than usual ; 
C. platyphylla and a few other species were also collected. 
Mycena was represented by several of the smaller species, Om- 
phalia by O. campanella, O. epichysium and others, Pleurotus 
chiefly by P. ostreatus, and Hygrophorus by H. conicus and a few 
other brilliantly colored species. The rosy-spored agarics were 
