Vol. 45 TORREYA June 1945 



A List of Fleshy Fungi of Fishers Island, N. Y. 



Charles C. Hanmer 



The fungi listed below were collected by the writer about forty years ago, 

 and in 1929 the entire collection was presented to the Brooklyn Botanic Gar- 

 den, Brooklyn, N. Y. Nearly all of the species listed were critically named by 

 several mycologists, many by the late Prof. Charles H. Peck, Prof. George F. 

 Atkinson, Prof. E. A. Burt, Charles Mcllvain, Charles G. Lloyd, and several 

 others 



During the past two years the writer has been over the old localities, where 

 there was fine collecting years ago, but Fishers Island has changed in many 

 respects. The wooded areas, known as "The Brick Yard Woods," where most 

 of the plants common to such a habitat were collected, were later used as a 

 sheep pasture. This completely ruined the place for collecting purposes. Then 

 came the hurricane of 1938, completing the devastation, so that it will be gen- 

 erations before any such wealth of fungus growth will be found there again. 

 The open fields still have fair amounts of the species which usually are found 

 there. Agaricus campestris and many of the Gasteromycetes are still common. 



My collection of the genus Russula is very incomplete, but aside from that 

 genus, I believe the collection to be fairly representative of the Fishers Island 

 fleshy fungi. 



ASCOMYCETES 



Geoglossum farlowi Cke. Aug. 3, 1902, 187; Sept. 7, 1902, 589; Sept. 6, 1903, 1550. 

 Geoglossum hirsutum Pers. Aug. 24, 1902, 425. 

 Geoglossum peckianum Cke. July 13, 1903, 1348. 



Daldinia concentrica (Bolt.) Ces. & De Not. Aug. 3, 1902, 199, 200-202; Aug. 24, 1902, 

 423, 424. 



B ASIDIO M YCETES 



TREMELLACEAE 



Tremella intumescens Eng. Bot. June 22, 1903, 1303. 

 Tremelladendron candidum (Schw.) Atk. Aug. 3, 1902, 192-194. 



Tremelladendron merismatoides (Schw.) Burt (Clavaria merismatoides Schw.) Aug. 

 15, 1903, 1478; Sept. 2, 1905, 2100. 



THELEPHORACEAE 



Thelephora multipartita Schw. Aug. 3, 1902, 198; Aug. 2, 1903, 1420; Sept. 10, 1905, 



2117. 

 Thelephora palmata Fr. Aug. 3, 1902, 196. 



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