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smaller branches and rice water is thrown over it at intervals to 

 prepare it for the mushroom. In Formosa it takes about a year 

 to get the first crop, while in Japan it usually takes three. The 

 mushrooms improve in size and flavor up to the third year. The 

 price ranges from thirty to fifty cents per pound. About 10,000 

 pounds are now grown by a company organized for the purpose 

 of encouraging the growth of agricultural products in Formosa, 

 and this amount will be greatly increased in the near future. 



During a recent visit to the famous Cockpit Country in the 

 island of Jamaica, I was much interested to discover that "the 

 edible mushroom " of that region grew on logs in the woods, 

 in a manner similar to that described above, only there is no 

 attempt at cultivating it. The natives search for it very eagerly 

 and consider it a great delicacy. They call it " Junju"; whether 

 a corruption of some African name or an attempt to pronounce 

 the word " fungi," I have not been able to determine. 



William A. Murrill. 



BOLETACEAE FROM KENTUCKY 



A valuable collection of Boletaceae, consisting of seventy-five 

 numbers, with complete descriptive notes made from fresh speci- 

 mens, has recently been sent in for determination by Professor 

 Bruce Fink, of Miami University, Oxford, Ohio. The collec- 

 tion includes about thirty species, several of which have not 

 been reported before from that region. C. auriflammeus and C. 

 Curtisii deserve special mention. 



Most of these specimens were collected by Professor Fink in 

 August and September, 1909, at Big Hill, Kentucky, about five 

 miles from Berea, in the edge of the Cumberland Mountains, at 

 an elevation of 900 to 1,700 feet. The others were found in the 

 vicinity of Oxford, Ohio. The species are as follows: 



Ceriomyces affinis, C. auriflammeus, C. auriporus, C. Betula, 

 C. bicolor, C. communis, C. crassus, C. Curtisii, C. eximius, C. 

 fumosipes, C. inflexus, C. miniato-olivaceus, C. pallidus, C. 

 retipes, C. Russellii, C. subtomentosus; Boletinellus merulioides ; 

 Boletinus Berkeleyi; Fistulina hepatica, F. pallida; Gyroporus 

 castaneus; Rostkovites granulatus; Strobilomyces strobilaceus ; 

 Suillellus Frostii, S. luridus; Tylopilus felleus, T. indecisus. 



William A. Murrill. 



