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north side of Mt. Pakatakan has been denuded of its original 
forests, but on some small estates near the base of the mountain 
and in a few deep ravines stretches of virgin timber remain which 
contain old beeches and sugar maples and hemlocks of unusual 
size. 
In comparing the forests about Arkville with those of Lake 
Placid and the Upper St. Regis, the most striking difference is 
the absence in the Arkville region of balsam and spruce and all 
other conifers except hemlock, and the relatively greater abund- 
ance of deciduous trees. This would indicate the absence of cer- 
tain fungous elements which are common in the Adirondacks 
and a larger proportion of species found about New York City. 
It may well be true that the fungous flora of the Catskills taken 
as a whole is very similar to that of the Adirondacks, but this 
general statement would hardly apply to Arkville without modi- 
fication. Peck’s Catskill collections were mostly obtained from 
Phoenicia, Tannersville, Haines Falls, Summit, and neighboring 
stations in the eastern part of the Catskills. 
If sphagnum bogs occur at Arkville, I did not happen to find 
one, but there is a remarkable development of Polytrichum com- 
mune on Hogback, where many species of Hygrophorus and 
other species of moss-loving fungi were found. Clavaria fusi- 
formis occurred there in much greater abundance than I have 
ever before seen it. 
Mrs. Margaret H. Newton, of the Pakatakan Inn, where iMrs. 
Murrill and I established our headquarters, very generously 
afforded us every facility for drying and caring for the speci- 
mens, while a large number of the guests became interested in 
hunting for fungi and aided us materially in building up the col- 
lection. The following deserve special mention and our best 
thanks : Miss Clara Grass, Miss Margaret Grass, Miss Lisetta 
Arlitz, Miss Marian Forsyth, Miss M. E. McOuat, Mr. Gerald 
Taber, Mr. James Hopkins, Mr. Marvin Tappan, Fraulein Fuchs, 
Mr. and Mrs. Charles Petrie, Mrs. Clark, Miss Wiggins, Miss 
Eleanor Browning, Miss Martha Harlow, Miss Shannon, and 
Miss Marguerite Budd. 
In the following list, the abundance of a given species as ob- 
served during my stay at Arkville is indicated by an exponent, the 
