Rare Fungi Found at St. Andrew's, N.B. 335 



fibrillose at the base. Exterior veil woven, arranged in 

 2-4 distinct cinnabar rings on the stem, partial veil con- 

 tinuous with the upper ring, arachnoid, reddish white, 

 It is a very noticeable species and has an odour of radish. 

 Paxillus involutus Fries is our one species : a common 

 one of the small genus Paxillus, which ends the series 

 of the Ochrosporese. 



Of the- Porphyrosporas — Purple-spored Agarics, our 

 only rare example is Agaricus hemorrkoidarius — Shulzer 

 — closely related to the common field-mushroom — A. cam- 

 pestris. Walking once along one of the island drive- 

 ways, I noticed a small group by the roadside of what 

 I thought to be fine specimens of A. arvensis, which in- 

 deed this hemorrhoidarius closely resembles in appear- 

 ance. I gathered them and held them in my hand while 

 continuing my walk. On looking down a few minutes 

 later, I saw what was apparently blood on my hand. I 

 thought, of course, it must have been scratched when 

 gathering the mushrooms, then I saw that the red fluid 

 was exuding from the broken stem of one of the mush- 

 rooms and that every part of it turned red and had a 

 congested appearance wherever bruised. In the 45th 

 Keport of the New York State Botanist, it is said to be 

 a rare or overlooked plant in the United States, first 

 recorded by Prof. Peck, who found it only once grow- 

 ing under a hemlock tree. Hypholoma with two species 

 closes our list of the Porphyrosporse. The final series 

 Melanosporae or black-spored Agarics is represented by 

 Coprinus atramentarius and Panaeolus retirugis, both 

 common fungi. 



Of the large family Polyporacese and its huge genus 

 Boletus, we find a number of species, mostly common 

 varieties. Its Boletus Chromapes, Frost, and Boletus 

 cyanescens, Bulliard, are uncommon forms. The former 

 appears to the superficial glance as very like many an- 

 other Boletus. It has a pale-red pileus and whitish 

 tubes, which become brown. But in the stem, we look 

 for its distinguishing characteristic. It is equal or 



