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The importance of such conferences and field inspection tours 

 cannot be overestimated. The New York Botanical Garden was 

 represented by Dr. Seaver, Dr. Stout, and the writer. 



W. A. MURRILL 



BOLETI FROM CONNECTICUT 



Prof. H. L. Wells, of Yale University, is well known as a 

 chemist, but it is not so generally known that he is an ardent 

 mycologist and mycophagist during the vacation season. He and 

 his daughter Gertrude have sent from the vicinity of Old Lyme, 

 Connecticut, and elsewhere a great many specimens of interesting 

 fleshy fungi. In a letter written at Old Lyme on July 30, he says : 



" In a section of the woods here is a remarkable place for 

 boleti, and several I have not identified. I have found B. felleus 

 in great abundance, also B. indecisiis, perhaps equally abundant, 

 which unless very young I cannot distinguish except by tasting 

 or bruising. B. alveolatiis and B. hicolor are also very common; 

 and I have seen B. illudens, B. scaher, B. ornatipcs, B. pallidus, 

 B. gracilis, B. suhglahripes, B. punctipes, B. luridus, B. speciosiis, 

 Strohilomyccs strohilaceits, and Bolctinus pictus, curiously rare 

 here. B. cyanesccns and B. chromapes are often common, but 

 have not yet appeared. 



"Of course, I have found many other things besides boleti. 

 One of the most interesting was a specimen of Amanita Caesar ea, 

 which I have not found before in this locality. However, seven- 

 teen years ago, I found some small specimens of it at Grove 

 Beach, Conn., and fifteen years ago two magnificent plants near 

 Worcester, Mass. 



" I have found also Boletus Gertrudlae, which Peck described 

 for me, not very accurately, as the specimens always decayed 

 before he got them, and I think I mixed up two species in my ac- 

 count of it to him. He said it was a very remarkable thing." 



Then Prof. Wells sent specimens of B. illiidens, B. chromapes, 

 B. griseiis, B. pallidus, and large collections of Bolctinus cas- 

 tanellus and Boletus Gertrudiae. On July 31, he wrote as follows : 



" As I happened to find about a dozen specimens of Boletus 

 Gertrudiae, described by Peck about seven or eight years ago, and 



