News and Notes 
97 
Three species of Tuber have been previously reported from the 
eastern United States, none of which accord well, so far as we 
can judge from the published accounts, with the two recently 
collected. The identity of the two recent collections has not been 
determined with certainty, but the specimens are kept for further 
study. The indications are that this genus may be well repre- 
sented in the eastern United States. 
In his work on underground fungi occurring in California, 
Harkness reports thirteen species of Tuber , but all of them are so 
rare as to be of little economic value. Harkness did not find any 
of the species of truffles usually eaten in Italy, but Tuber cali- 
fornica approaches very nearly to one of these Italian species. 
In addition to Tuber, a number of other genera of underground 
fungi contain edible species. 
Agaricus mucifer Berk. & Mont. 
While examining recently the type specimens of fungi collected 
by Sullivant in Ohio and now preserved in the Montagne herba- 
rium in Paris, I made a special effort to connect Agaricus ( Tricho - 
loma ) mucifer Berk. & Mont. Syll. Crypt. 99. 1856 with some 
species of the genus at present known. The description of the 
species is as follows : 
Pileus fleshy, convex to expanded, center depressed, 12 cm. 
broad ; surface reddish-alutaceous, very viscid, glabrous ; flesh 
incarnate or rosy ; lamellae emarginate-decurrent, subconcolorous, 
white, red-spotted, changing to reddish on drying; spores oblong, 
apiculate, white ; stipe stout, short, bulbous, fibrillose-striate, rufo- 
badious, solid, 6 cm. long, 2 cm. thick at the apex, 3 cm. thick at 
the base; veil white, fibrillose, joined to margin of young pileus. 
This description applies to a plant near Tricholoma trans- 
mutans or Tricholoma Russula. The type specimens are rather 
confusing. One packet, marked No. 274, has Sullivant’s original 
number tied to the specimens. In this packet, there are two 
plants, one with bulbous stipe and purplish-red surface, which is 
evidently the type and is very near Tricholoma Russula, the 
other plant practically white and evidently Montague’s Clitocybe 
