Bodge—Wisconsin Discomycetes. 
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WISCONSIN DISCOMYCETES 
B. 0. Dodge. 
The following list is based on specimens collected in Wiscon¬ 
sin by the writer and others whose names are indicated in the 
notes accompanying the species, and the specimens are incor¬ 
porated in the herbarium of the University of Wisconsin. Much 
difficulty has been encountered owing to the unsatisfactory con¬ 
dition of the generic descriptions and through our lack of know¬ 
ledge of the species of the Discomycetes occurring in North 
America. Until the North American species have been more 
fully compared with European species, any such list must be of 
a tentative nature. 
Several local papers dealing with the Discomycetes of this 
country have been consulted freely in preparing this list. A 
number of American species have been described by Cooke and 
by Phillips & Plowright in various volumes of Greviliea. As 
early as 1876 Parlow began listing the fungi from the region 
about Boston. He notes some 25 species of Discomycetes in 
his “List of fungi found in the vicinity of Boston” (Bull. Bus¬ 
sey Inst, vol. 1:404-454, 1876; vol. 2: 224-252, 1878), and 
later under “Notes on the Cryptogamic flora of the White 
Mountains” (Appalachia, vol. 3:232-277, 1884), he furnishes 
an additional list of 12 species of this class. The “Catalogue 
of the Pacific coast fungi” (Harkness and Moore, 1880) con¬ 
tains a list of 140 species. Earle (ContriK U. S. Nat, Herb., 
vol. 6: 150-263, 1901) brings together all of the species of the 
Alabama Discomycetes noted in the “Preliminary list of Ala¬ 
bama fungi’’ of Underwood and Earle (Alabama Exp. Sta. Bull 
80, 1897), those mentioned by Atkinson in “Some fungi from 
Alabama’'' (Bull, Cornell Univ., vol. 3: 1-50, 1897), and spe- 
