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Sumstine 3, 13, 30, 43, 45, 57; Delaware, Commons 2294, 2343; 

 District of Columbia, Sheldon 73; Virginia, Long, Murrill 217, 

 240, 353; West Virginia, Hartley 49, Nuttall; Ohio, Fink 54, 

 James, Lloyd 2794, 3135, Morgan 88, 601, Overholts 172, 216; 

 Kentucky, McFarland 168 ; Illinois, Calkins ; Indiana, Underwood, 

 VanHook 2171, 2194, 2 43&> 2 5&6, 2587, Weir 55; Tennessee, 

 Murrill 599; Michigan, Kauffman 1; Montana, Anderson 130; 

 Iowa, Holway, G. W. Wilson, 1, 2, 3, 6; Colorado, Bethel, De- 

 metrio, Seaver & Bethel; Kansas, Cragin no, 557; Arkansas, 

 Long 19851; New Mexico, Hedgcock & Long 9po8 ; Arizona, 

 Long 19725, 21373, 21394, 21395; California, Johnston 258 ; North 

 Carolina, Murrill, Bartholomew 5661 ; South Carolina, Ravenel; 

 Georgia, Ravenel; Alabama, Underwood ; Mississippi, Tracy 185; 

 Louisiana, Earle 10, Langlois ; Florida, Calkins 31, 88, 119, 142, 

 921, Lloyd 2078, Mrs. Russell; Cuba, Britton & Wilson 5463; 

 Mexico, Murrill 625, 626, 688, 690, Smith 42; British Honduras, 

 Peck. 



W. A. Murrill. 



Collecting Fungi near Washington 



The first two weeks in October, 1919, were spent by the writer 

 in the vicinity of Washington, with excursions to Falls Church, 

 Fairfax Court House, Great Falls, and Mount Vernon in Vir- 

 ginia ; and to Baltimore, Reisterstown, and Easton in Maryland. 

 Dr. Howard A. Kelly collected with me one afternoon near Falls 

 Church, securing several specimens of fleshy fungi which he took 

 home and had photographed or painted. 



I went with a party of friends over some of the golf links in 

 the suburbs of Washington and found the common field mush- 

 room, the field pufTball, the fairy ring mushroom, and a peculiar, 

 large form of Collybia radicata which grew only under maple 

 trees. All of these were eaten and enjoyed. 



Clitocybe illudens was abundant in oak woods, particularly 

 fine clusters being observed west of Falls Church and near the 

 boat landing at Mount Vernon. 



The journey to Easton, located on the Eastern Shore of Mary- 

 land over eighty miles from Washington, was especially interest- 

 ing because Miss Mary E. Banning, a pioneer mycologist of 



