MYCOLOGIA 
VoL. VIII November, 1916 No. 6 
FUNGI COLLECTED AT ARKVILLE, NEW 
YORK 
William A. Murrill 
While spending a vacation of two weeks at Arkville, August . 
6-20, 1916, I took daily excursions into the surrounding forests 
and secured a very representative collection of the fleshy fungous 
flora of the region for that season of the year. If a similar col- 
lection could be secured during late September, many other spe- 
cies, particularly in the rusty-spored and brown-spored groups, 
would undoubtedly be added to the list here published. 
Arkville is a small village in the edge of Delaware County at 
the southwest corner of the Catskill region. Mt. Pakatakan, 
3,000 feet above sea-level, overlooks the village on the south, 
while a lower range called the Hogback rises precipitously to the 
north. The headwaters of the Delaware River are in these and 
neighboring mountains, the elevation of the valleys around Ark- 
ville being about 1,400 feet. Arkville is interesting to many 
botanists in New York City because it is included within the local 
flora range. 
The principal forest trees of the region are hemlock, sugar 
maple, beech, yellow birch, butternut, white elm, ash, hop horn- 
beam, linden, red maple, and aspen. A few chestnuts are found 
on Hogback, but these will soon be exterminated by the canker, 
which is spreading rapidly through the Catskills from the Asho- 
kan Reservoir region. Several of the aspens were found to be 
seriously attacked by the poplar canker. A local wood alcohol 
plant consumes fifteen cords of wood daily. Practically all the 
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