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Mycologia 



2. Craterellus pistillaris Fr. 



This interesting species was collected in abundance in the 

 Seven Mountains of Center County, on August 24. About 25 

 specimens were found along an old forest trail in the vicinity of 

 Bear Meadows. Dr. Burt reports 1 but three localities in this 

 country, viz., New Hampshire, Vermont, and Michigan for the 

 species. Professor E. T. Harper has published 2 some excellent 

 illustrations and given some critical notes on the species. 



My plants were somewhat larger than the measurements re- 

 corded by Dr. Burt, the largest specimens being 16 cm. tall and 

 7 cm. thick at the apex. A few specimens were somewhat com- 

 pressed and flabelliform in shape and one specimen was strongly 

 2-lobed at the apex. The color of the nearly smooth hymenium 

 varied from light pinkish cinnamon to vinaceous cinnamon of 

 Ridgway. The specimens grew in a mixed hard-wood forest, 

 chestnut and oak predominating. 



3. Fomes bakeri (Murrill) Sacc. 

 Plate 9, figs. 1, 2 



On species of birch in the middle-western United States there 

 has been known for some time a Fomes that by most collectors 

 was referred to F . igniarius Fr. In 1908, Murrill 3 described this 

 as a new species under the above name and later reported 4 its 

 range as "Wisconsin, Missouri, and westward." In 1915, Lloyd 

 referred 5 this plant as a variety of F. robustus Karst., known in 

 this country only from California. The writer added 6 an Ohio 

 locality in 191 5 and pointed out that while the type collection was 

 made by C. F. Baker, yet the plant distributed under that name 

 by him in Plants of Southern California, 5188, was a different 

 species, probably Polyporus gilvus. 



On the basis of these references the species was not believed 

 to occur east of the Appalachian Mountains, and it was with con- 



1 Ann. Mo. Bot. Gard. 1: 342. 1914- 



2 Mycologia 5 : 263. 1913. 



3 N. Am. Flora 9: 104. 1908. 



4 Northern Polypores, p. 48. 1914. 



5 Synopsis of the genus Fomes, p. 243. 1915. 



6 Polyporaceae of the Middle-Western United States, p. 61. 1915. 



