8o NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 



THE FUNGI OF NORTH ELBA 



BY C. H. KAUFFMAN 



For the purpose of obtaining, for the Cryptogamic herbarium of 

 the University of Michigan, a representative collection of the fungi 

 of the Adirondacks, a trip was planned to the collecting grounds of 

 Doctor Peck at North Elba. The writer was accompanied by Mr 

 E. B. Mains as assistant, and the collecting was done between 

 August 31 and September 21, 1914. We located at the south end of 

 the town of Newman. During the three weeks of our stay the 

 weather was extremely propitious for the growth of fungi. For sev- 

 eral weeks before our arrival and during most of the time thereafter, 

 it rained heavily and almost continually. As a result the fungi, 

 especially the Agarics, were to be found in such abundance that we 

 are able to add a large number of records to the already large list 

 of Doctor Peck.^ The region covered has in a general way a radius 

 of 3 or 4 miles from Newman. This, it should be noted, is a very 

 small part of the territory studied by Doctor Peck. 



The most striking characteristic of this region is the abundance of 

 species of Cortinarii. These are, however, largely limited to the sub- 

 genera Telamonia, Dermocybe, and Hydrocybe. This is in sharp 

 contrast to the flora of a region of hardwoods like that of southern 

 Michigan, for in the latter area the subgenera Phlegmacium and 

 Myxacium predominate. It may also be worth while to point out 

 that the forests and forest floor and the subalpine conditions of this 

 region are very similar to those about Stockholm and Upsala, Swe- 

 den. The species of fungi should then also be very similar in both 

 places. With this in mind, it was not surprising to find a large num- 

 ber, especially of the genus Cortinarius, which the writer had col- 

 lected in that country. 



Mr Mains gave special attention to the Uredinales and Ascomy- 

 cetes, and those groups have been identified largely by him. We 

 here kindly thank Professor Arthur and Mr C. G. Lloyd for 

 courtesies extended in the examination of some of the rusts and 

 Hymenomycetes. 



MYXOMYCETES 



EXOSPOREAE 



Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa (Muell.) Macbr. On moist decayed 

 wood. Common. 



1 Plants of North Elba. Charles H. Peck. N. Y. State Mus. Bui. 28, 

 June 1899. 



