NATURAL HISTORY, TORONTO REGION 
tries. I have been informed, however, by persons 
in the United States to whom I have sent specimens 
that the following are rather rare plants there: Poly- 
porus squamosus, Pleurotus dryinus, Tremella fron- 
dosa, and Gyrocephalus rufus. 
On the other hand, from what is said in popular 
handbooks, I should judge that there are elsewhere 
quite a number which are considered common species, 
but which I have met with either rarely or not at 
all. For example, the Beef-steak fungus (Fistulina 
hepatica), the edible qualities of which are so enthu- 
siastically and tantalizingly lauded in the books, 
Clitopilus prunulus, Agaricus gambosus, Agaricus 
rubescens, Lepiota rachodes, Hygrophorus virgineus, 
Clitocybe illudens, and Armillaria mucida I have 
never seen; and Pleurotus ulmarius, Lactarius vole- 
mus, Russula virescens, Clitocybe nebularis, Clito: 
cybe clavipes, Clitocybe media and most species of 
Lricholoma, Volvaria and Cortinarius are rarities. 
PARTIAL LIST OF FUNGI TO BE 
FOUND NEAR TORONTO. 
BASIDIOMYCETES. 
HYMENOMYCETES. 
I AqgarrcacEag, 
Leucosporae. 
Amanita musearia, Linn. 
ue phalloides, Fr. oe 
ee Lepiota gracilenta, Krombh. 
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