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yet found among them, however. The next — Armillaria 

 is represented by thousands of its common variety, 

 mellea, and also by the very rare imperialis of Fries. In 

 one spot only, in woods of spruce and black birch, have 

 we ever found this species. It appeared for several 

 years as a group of three or four individuals. After 

 bringing it home frequently in the vain attempt to 

 identify it, I finally sent it to Prof. Peck, who wrote 

 giving the name and saying : — ' 'It is a magnificent 

 species, and I am very glad you sent me this specimen, 

 which I am preserving for the Museum Herbarium." 

 It is a large plant 4 to 8 or 9 inches high, having a cap 

 of brownish fawn colour, or even whitish, very tough 

 and covered with fleshy scales, the margin strongly in- 

 curved. Gills pallid, then yellowish, crowded, decurrent. 

 Stipe 3 to 4 or 5"mches long, fleshy, compact, very thick, 

 and attenuated at the base like a cone. Ring double, 

 whitish, grooved underneath. For the last three years 

 most diligent search has not revealed any trace of this 

 little group of mushrooms. A road was laid out a short 

 distance from their habitat about the time of their dis- 

 appearance, which may account for it. Mr. Vroom, of 

 St. Stephen, a town about twenty miles from St. An- 

 drews, told me that this past autumn he had found a 

 remarkable fungus in great abundance about St. 

 Stephen. After some study he identified it as this Ar- 

 millaria imperialis. Although a close observer of Fungi, 

 he had, if I remember rightly, not seen it before last 

 season. In European works on Mycology, it is described 

 as rare, occasionally found in pine woods. Of the five 

 species of Tricholoma and three of Clitocybe, on my list, 

 the only ones worthy of mention as being unusual are 

 first — the Tricholoma subacutum of Peck, described by 

 him some years ago, but not mentioned in many of the 

 American books, not even in Mcllvaine's huge work: 

 "One Thousand American Fungi." So that, if not 

 rare, it is at least uncommon. It is a grayish mush- 

 room of medium size, having the umbo in the centre of 



