The Mycologic Flora of the Miami Valley, O. 8] 
Notr.—It is hoped the preceding pages will prove a fair introduction 
to the White-spored Agarics. This is the second effort, within the 
writer's knowledge, to introduce the student to a systematic knowledge 
of the Agaricini of any region of the U.S., the first being Prof. Chas. 
H. Peck’s Agaricini of New York State, in the Twenty-third Report of 
the State Museum of Natural History. It is not to be expected that I 
have found all the species, yet I have increased the list from 34 in 
Lea’s Catalogue to 80. Compared with the corresponding number in 
Mr. Frost’s list of the fungi about Brattleboro, Vt., a region un- 
doubtedly richer in this class of Fungi, there are in the latter 100 
species of Leucospori. We will certainly make some additions, and 
I hold in reserve some figures which as yet appear to me to be new 
species. That I do not make some mistakes in the determination and 
identification of species, would be to accomplish something that has 
not yet been done in this country, even with flowering plants; but the 
greater part of these plants have been seen by me before in the 
Eastern States, and furthermore, specimens or figures of many of the 
remainder have been submitted to the most competent authority in 
this country, Prof. Chas. H. Peck, the State Botanist of New York. 
These pages, and what may follow, are arranged according to the 
Hymenomycetes Europei, of the illustrious Elias Fries, of Sweden; this 
arrangement accords also with the Handbook of British Fungi, by 
Dr. M. C. Cooke. It is designed to introduce the student, through the 
medium of our local flora, to a more extended knowledge of the 
Hymenomycetes of North America, by means of the works above - 
mentioned, which are the most accessible to students. The specific 
descriptions of Fries, which are models of perspicuity and elegance, 
are translated with great care; such variations as may appear in our 
species along with other general observations on locality and time of 
growth, are made in appended remarks. The remaining Agarici will 
form the subject of a second paper. A, P. M. 
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