130 FUXGl OF NOVA SCOTJA. — M\CKA\. 



Liuienburg, MCH, and also verna, cwsarea, and miiscarla. 

 Now Glasgow, caginata, verna, and muscaria, WPF. 



Armillaria mellea Vahl. Common on decaying stumps, 

 especially of coniferw, in the neighbourhood of lialifa::, Pietuu, 

 Middleton, AHMK and ERG. Lunenburg, MCF. 



Tiicholma equestre, sejuncium and columhetla. Lunenburg. 

 MCH. 



Clitocybe laecata Scop, ('ommon near Halifax. (Var. 

 siriaiiiln) , l^ictou and Middleton. Variable, not poisonous, 

 RRG and AHMK. 



Clitocybe nebulariSj candicans and muUiceps. Lunenburg, 

 MCH. 



('. clari'pes Pers. Shelburne, CSB. Middleton, RRG. 



C. infundibulif ormis Schseff. Piotou, September, CliM. 



Pleurotus serotmus Schrad. Edible. Middleton, RRG. 

 Truro, JMS. Pictou, AHMK. Lunenburg, JMCH. 



P. lignatilis Pers. Lunenburg, MCH. 



Collybia platyphylla and dryophila. Lunenburg, MCH. C. 

 radicata, New Glasgow, WPF. 



Mycena galericiilata Scop. Lunenburg, MCH. 



Omphalia umbellifera L. Lunenburg, MCH- 



Pluteus cervinus Schdseff. Edible, Middleton. RRG, 

 Halifax, JS. 



Naucoria pediades Fr. liUnenburg, MCIL 



Pscdliofa campestris, Stropharia semi-globata, and Hypho- 

 loma sublateritium. Lunenburg, MCH. 



Pfiylocybe fcmisecn P. Willow Park, Halifax, JS. Glacft 

 Bay, Cape Breton, N.S., R. A. H. MacKeen, M. J> This 

 latter species was identified l)y C. 11. Peck^ Stat^ bota^nist, of 

 New York, to whom I referred it after receiving it M'ith a 

 communication 'containing the following information from 

 Dr. ]MacKeen : — 



" Early this week I was called to attend three children 

 ranging i'n age from 3.5 to 4.5 years. The history I obtained 

 was practically the same in each case. 



