24 Joint Bulletin 1 



1912 1913 1914 



Canada warbler 5-21 5-26 



Worm-eating warbler 6-9 



Pine warbler 6-2 



Mrs. Richardson states that the swallow-tailed kite was seen about 

 Waitsfield for two weeks and that because of its large size, deeply 

 forked tail and strongly contrasted black and white plumage, it was 

 unmistakable. 



FOREST FUNGI OF BETHEL. 



Dr. Perley Spaulding. 



The writer has collected the forest fungi of the township of Bethel, 

 Vt. for a number of years. Very little time can be given to it at any 

 one time and most of the collecting is done incidentally, so progress 

 has been slow. The area to be covered is nearly six miles square or 

 thirty-six square miles. Some of this area has not yet been visited but 

 it is intended to make the search thorough before it is finished. This 

 area has been chosen as being fairly representative of Vermont con- 

 ditions, since it extends up to the higher Green Mountains on one side 

 while the White River valley is an extension of the Connecticut River 

 valley and has a number of plants of the more southern section. 



The typical tree and shrub species are red spruce, yew, hemlock, 

 beech, sugar, red, striped, mountain and silver maple, yellow and paper 

 birch, butternut, aspen, balsam poplar, large toothed poplar, ironwood. 

 hop hornbeam, linden, white elm, black, pin and choke cherry, white 

 ash, shining, pussy and heart-leaved willows, June berry, staghorn 

 sumac, hazelnut, flowering and red raspberries, highbush blackberry, 

 sweetbrier rose, common elder, hobble-bush, maple-leaved viburnum. 

 Rather uncommon species are balsam fir, larch, common juniper, white 

 pine, red cedar (a single cedar swamp known), red pine (a single 

 wild tree knowm), a hickory (too immature for positive identification), 

 black alder, chestnut (two mature trees known), red oak, slippery elm, 

 mountain ash, black locust, black ash, prickly gooseberry, barberry. 



Of the tree fungi mention will be made here only of the most 

 common and largest species. There are Armillaria mellea, causing root 

 rot of all kinds of trees but usually noted on stumps and dead roots; 

 Pqjius stypticus on dead wood; Schizophyllum commune on dead wood; 

 Daedalea cotifragosa. D. quercina. D. unicolor, Lenzites betulina and L. 



