Jan., 1910.] 
Notes on a Collection of Boletaceae. 
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NOTES ON A COLLECTION OF BOLETACEAE.* 
Bruce Fink. 
The summer of 1909 was favorable for the development of 
fleshy fungi on account of the unusually large rainfall. During 
the first part of August, the writer was at “Beechwood Camp” 
with a party of students. The month was very wet, and fleshy 
fungi were brought in and studied in large numbers. The tables 
were dailv covered with an array of Russulae, Lactariae, Aman- 
itae, Boleti, and other forms, which altogether gave an assort- 
ment of forms, sizes, and colors seldom seen in these days of 
depleted forest lands. While students were working on the 
agarics, the writer gave his attention to the Boletaceae, collecting 
and making careful notes of each species. The result was fourteen 
species, some of them not previously reported from Ohio. 
“Beechwood Camp” is located in an almost virgin forest, five 
miles north of Oxford, Ohio. Beech trees form the facies over all 
the area, except the flood-plain of Tallawanda Creek, where these 
are replaced by the plane (sycamore) trees. The forest covers 200 
acres. Large trees abound, and many trees have been allowed to 
fall and decay, so that stumps and logs are abundant, on which 
fungi are plentiful in wet weather. 
After the collecting was done at “Beechwood Camp,” the last 
two weeks of August were spent in the foothills of the Cumberland 
Mountains, east of Berea, Kentucky. The rainfall had been 
abundant there also, and the fleshy fungi were growing in such 
size and profusion as we can never hope to see again in Ohio, since 
the forests are so largely removed. Special attention was again 
given to the Boletaceae and twenty-four species were collected, 
several of which were unknown from Kentucky. Some of the 
species collected contained specimens of unusual size, plants 
twenty cm. across being collected several times. 
Twenty-eight (28) species were collected in the two localities, 
during the month. This is not a large number; but the Boletaceae 
are rare plants, and only seventy-five species are given for North 
America, including the West Indies. 
Thanks are due to a number of persons for aid in the work. 
Mr. Hugh Willard Fink was a companion and efficient aid in 
nearly all of the collecting, and acted as scribe in the note-taking. 
Indeed, without the help that he was able to give, the work done 
could not have been accomplished in the time at hand. Professor 
G. D. Smith, of Richmond. Kentucky, was present during the 
study in the Kentucky locality, and aided in the collecting and 
photographing and in becoming acquainted with the plants. 
* Reported at the meeting of the Ohio Academy of Science, Akron, 
Nov. 25, 1910. 
