SOME KENTUCKY FUNGI 
L. O. AND Mae F. Overholts 
In the summer of 1915, the writers spent three days, July 10- 
12, collecting fungi in Madison County, Kentucky. The first 
place visited was Richmond, where only a few collections were 
made in the limited time available. The journey was then con- 
tinued to Berea, at the base of the Cumberland Mountains, where 
the remainder of the time was spent. The region west and south 
of Berea is extremely rough, and the hills and valleys yielded a 
great profusion of fleshy fungi after the copious rains of sev- 
eral previous weeks. 
Very little attention has been given to the fungous flora of 
Kentucky. In 1909, Dr. Bruce Fink spent portions of the months 
of August and September in this same region. He made about 
seventy-five collections of Boletaceae, representing about thirty 
species. These were identified by Dr. Murrill and the list pub- 
lished by him in Mycologia for November of that year. A few 
collections belonging to families other than the Boletaceae were 
subsequently turned over to the senior writer and are included 
in the present list. Aside from the above mentioned brief ac- 
count, no local check list has ever been published from any local- 
ity within the state. 
The fungous flora of Kentucky is of particular interest in that 
it combines the flora of the, north central prairie states with that 
of the Appalachian Mountains. In addition, we may expect to 
find within the state a considerable number of typically southern 
species. It was thought that the present list might be of interest 
to workers within the state, or might stimulate collectors in other 
parts of the state to publish their results, for it is only through 
the united efforts of a large number of local collectors that we 
can become acquainted with the fungous flora of any large region. 
The present list is recognized to be extremely incomplete and 
perhaps it does not represent as much as one-tenth of the number 
of species that may be expected to occur within the state. Most 
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