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Mycologia 



Trametes robiniophilaf from Texas, on oak. The specimen is 



old and discolored. 

 Tyromyces guttnlatus from Idaho, on Finns Murrayana. 



W. A. Murrill. 



Collecting Fungi at Yama Farms 



Yama Farms is a vast tract of virgin land lying twenty miles 

 due west of Poughkeepsie among the foothills of the Catskill 

 Mountains. It is a beautiful natural asylum for wild life of all 

 kinds and will doubtless remain so for many years to come. Au- 

 thors, musicians, artists, naturalists, and other lovers of nature 

 from all parts of the country find their way to this quiet resting- 

 place at every season of the year and return to their homes greatly 

 refreshed and more deeply impressed with the abundance and 

 charm of nature's offerings. 



On November 7, 191 9, I went up to Yama in company with 

 Mr. H. I. Miller and the following day we covered about one 

 hundred miles by motor, visiting the most inviting localities and 

 collecting all the larger fungi to be found. Beginning at Jenny 

 Brook, famous for its trout, we worked southward past Ellen- 

 ville and into the hills to the west before noon. In the afternoon, 

 we drove twenty-eight miles in a northwesterly direction up the 

 valley of Lackawack Creek and turned northward through a 

 virgin forest lying in the edge of Sullivan County. Here among 

 the hemlocks, yellow birch, beech, and other characteristic 

 Catskill and Adirondack trees we found a rich collecting ground 

 and obtained many interesting specimens. At the height of the 

 collecting season, this would be a veritable paradise for my- 

 cologists. 



The trip was not without interest, also, to the botanist of less 

 specialized tastes ; for mosses, ferns, rhododendron, and kalmia 

 covered the rocks and banks everywhere, while climbing bitter- 

 sweet and holly brightened the swamps and hedgerows with their 

 orange and scarlet berries. 



The result of our day's collecting can hardly be given in a 

 brief article. Mr. Miller and I went through the specimens and 



