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very well developed specimens appeared in a small area previously 

 occupied by the puff-ball Scleroderma aurantium. All these forms 

 are within a radius of 15 feet from the trunk of the oak tree. Typical 

 specimens of this Scleroderma have appeared each year, but several 

 smooth walled specimens were gathered the past summer which fit 

 Coker and Couch's description' of S. cepa, both as to peridium and 

 spore characters. A third species of Scleroderma has appeared in 

 sunnier situations in another area of the lawn. They are usually 

 much smaller than the specimens of the two already mentioned spe- 

 cies, and are replicas of those illustrated by Coker and Couch as 5". 

 lycoperdoides in their Plate 94. The spores, however, correspond 

 more closely to those of S. teneruin on their Plate 120. I have col- 

 lected this species in the same areas of lawn since 1934. 



The Boleti are represented by Boletus castaneus, which yearly 

 makes its appearance in the neighborhood of the oak, and by B. 

 chrysenteron, which has appeared from time to time in various 

 places on the lawn. A less frequent visitor is B. graniilatus with its 

 stipe marked by reddish granular dots. 



A species of Inocybe with angular, nodulose spores, has ap- 

 peared in 1940 and 1941 beneath a barberry hedge several feet from 

 the oak. Its cap, about an inch in diameter, shows the typical fibrous 

 markings of an Inocybe ; it is umbonate with a dark umbo, and has 

 a tendency to split along the margin. This is the third species of 

 Inocybe to appear on the lawn. Two others, Inocybe injelix, and 

 Inocybe eutheloides ( ?) were found in 1934, but only /. injelix has 

 been a permanent resident. From spring to early fall this dingy 

 brown little agaric may be found on a barren patch of soil beneath 

 a rhododendron shrub. The spores of all three of these Inocybes 

 differ decidedly. 



In a patch of moss (narrow-leaved Catharinea) beneath the dog- 

 wood tree, a tiny yellow Clavaria has been found, and also Pleurotiis 

 hypnophilus and a small white agaric possibly Omphalia gracillima 

 ( ?), but these are only among the occasional visitors. 



Of the two blue spruce trees, which occupy a position directly 

 in front of the house, one seems to be much more favorably situated 

 for the growth of fungi than the other. Under the former, Amanita 

 muscaria has established itself permanently. Each year dozens of 



-Coker, W. C. and J. N. Couch. The Gasteromycetes of the Eastern U. S. 

 and Canada. Univ. North Carolina Press. 1928. 



