JOURNAL 
The New York Botanical Garden 
VoL. ViL December, 1905. : No. 72. 
COLLECTING FUNGI IN MAINE. 
Dr. N. L. Brirron, DirecTor-1In-CHIEF : 
It was my privilege to spend four weeks or more during 
August and September in a delightful region in central Maine 
heretofore untouched by the mycologist. Mr Ricker, of 
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the fungi of Maine, planned the trip and invited me to accom- 
pany him. We left Oldtown in a canoe August 21 and ascended 
the Penobscot, Piscataquis and the Sebec rivers to Sebec lake, 
camping and collecting at suitable points on the way. The lake 
shore was then explored and an excursion of several days made 
by land from Willimantic to Boarstone mountain. Returning, 
we left the river at Milo and came direct to Oldtown by railway. 
I obtained about 1,500 specimens of fungi, many of them not 
her Clolor reported from Maine and some of them undescribed. 
T vers in Maine are low at this season, both from natural 
causes and because the water is purposely held back in the lakes. 
In addition, therefore, to the usual number of dams, falls and 
apids to be carried, poled or waded, one must often drag the 
canoe through stretches of shallow water, usually rocky and 
swift and abounding in holes of uncertain depth. These “rips” 
are more fatiguing going up stream, but more dangerous to canoe 
and cargo coming down. 
The first ten days of our trip were clear and the woods unusu- 
ally dry, but on reaching Milo we encountered nearly a week of 
continuous rainy weather which brought out a large crop of 
