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delightful and profitable outing and being neither tired nor sobered 

 by the day's exertions. 



List of Agarics and Boletes Collected 



Venenarius phalloides. Dark form. Found once. 



Boletus luteiis. Very common. 



Lactaria sp. Frequent. 



Ceriomyces sp. Found once. 



Laccaria laccata. Frequent. 



Laccaria ochro purpurea. Frequent. 



Venenarius solitarius. Found once. 



Venenarius muscarius. Frequent. 



Ceriomyces viscidus. Found once. 



Cortinarius sp. Found twice. 



Russula delica. Very common. 



Ceriomyces frustulosus? Found once by Dr. Levine. The pileus 

 was milk-white, the tubes grayish to avellaneous, and the 

 stipe very conspicuously reticulate entirely to the base. The 

 species has previously been known only from Mississippi and 

 Alabama. 



Melanoleuca egiiestris. Very common, growing gregariously in 

 low places and lifting up the soil and pine needles as it emerged. 

 It was usually viscid when wet and very distinctly striate, 

 especially when old, reminding one of Russula foetens, but 

 being yellow to latericeous in color. Another marked re- 

 semblance to R. foetens was a decided odor of bitter almonds, 

 which became very pronounced when the specimens were put 

 in the stove to dry. The taste was at first mawkish, not 

 farinaceous, and became slowly somewhat acrid. The stipe 

 was solid, compact, and yellowish with reddish blotches. The 

 fresh spores were ovoid, smooth, hyaline, uniguttulate, 8-9 

 X 5 M) somew^hat larger than recorded for the species. These 

 specimens collected under peculiar conditions in the pine 

 barrens are extremely interesting as indicating to what extent 

 a species may vary. I was fortunate to secure for comparison 

 good colored drawings of these specimens and the same species 

 found growing in the New York Botanical Garden under 

 normal conditions a few days previous. 



