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Mycologia 



Proceedings of the Rochester Academy of Science. There are 

 319 species and varieties in the list, all collected by Mr. Boughton 

 and most of them determined by Professor Peck. Interesting 

 notes on occurrence, edibility, etc., are added. Amanitopsis vot- 

 vata Peck is cited as an edible species, whereas Ford and others 

 have found it to be poisonous. See Mycologia 6:174. 1914. 

 Amanita Frostiana is probably harmless, but it too closely re- 

 sembles A. muscaria to recommend it for food. 



Polyporus amorphus Fries, which was referred to in Mycologia 

 for January, 191 6, and discussed quite fully in Mycologia for 

 September, 191 7, is represented in the Garden herbarium by two 

 additional collections which have not been previously mentioned 

 specifically. One is from Penobscot Lake, Somerset County, 

 Maine, collected on decaying Abies balsamea, August 25, 1903, by 

 E. R. Hodson, 18 J \ and the other is from State College, Penn- 

 sylvania, collected on a stump of Pinus Strobus, November 27, 

 1914, by C. R. Orton and A. S. Rhoads, 14. The first men- 

 tioned collection appears to add a new host for America, the 

 fungus having been reported hitherto on three species of pine, 

 P. rigida, P. Strobus, and P. pungens, and on hemlock. 



