100 ROCHESTER ACADEMY OF SCIENCE. 



HYMENOMYCETEAE OF ROCHESTER, N. Y., AND 



VICINITY. 

 By Fred S. Boughton. 



The following Hymenomycetese, or fleshy fungi, numbering 319 

 species and varieties, were collected by the writer in Rochester, 

 Pittsford, Perinton, Mendon and vicinity. References to the reports 

 of Dr. C. H. Peck are given in parentheses. 



CLASS FUNGI. 

 Sub-class Basidiomycetes. 

 Cohort Hymenomycetes. Gr. — a membrane, a fruit-bearing surface; 

 Gr. — a mushroom. 



Family I. — Agaricace^e. 



Series I. — Leucospor.e. Gr. — white ; Gr. — seed. White spored. 



Amanita. 

 (A name given to some esculent fungi by Galen, perhaps from Mount 

 Amanus.) 



1. Amanita phalloides Fr. (Pk. 1895) — phallus-like Amanita. Woods, 



Rochester, Bushnells Basin and vicinity, common, deadly poisonous. 



2. A. phalloides, gray var., same habitat as the last, not common, deadly 



poisonous. 



3. A. yerna Bull. (Pk. 1895.) A variety of A. phalloides, not common, 



deadly poisonous. 



4. A. spreta Pk. — hated. Woods, Pittsford, not common, poisonous. 



5. A. muscaria Linn. (Pk. 1895) — Fly Amanita. Poisonous, common 



throughout the county. The Germans use the caps, immersed in 

 milk, to kill flies. 



6. A. Caesarea Scop. (Pk. 1895) — King-like Caesars mushroom. Pitts- 



ford. Not common, edible. 



7. A. rubescens Pers. (Pk. 1895) — reddish Amanita. Seneca Park, Pitts- 



ford, Bushnells Basin, common, edible. 



8. A. Frostiaua Pk. Pittsford, not common, poisonous. 



9. A. sp. — A species new to me. Gray in color, with pileus covered with 



warts. Woods, Pittsford. 



10. A. pantherina DC— Bushnells Basin, not tested. 



11. A. radicata Pk. — Rochester, not tested. 



12. A. strobiliformis Vitt. — Strobilis, a pine cone. Rochester, edible. 



