0 - Mycological Society of America

BAS1 DIOMY CETES
FUNGI FOR DISTRIBUTION
J. Cauffman has both cultures and spore prints of the Suillus americanus and Lepiota naucina
as we1 1 as cultures of Agaricus augustus.
V. Demoul i n has cultures and specimens of Gasteromycetes.
S. Peele has carbon tetrachloride-treated specimens of Psiloc be and Paneolus spp. available
for distribution to universities for botanical s t i h a t e d if a DEA Schedule I
permit is available). He also has dried specimens, spore prints, and cultures of other
agarics. Inquire with name(s) of desired species.
R. Tulloss has Amanita spp. largely from the New Jersey Pine Barrens.
DEUTEROMYCETES
G. Adams has cultures of tester strains of anastomosis groups of Thanatephorus and
Ceratobasidi um.
G. Morgan-Jones has Exophiala pisciphi la and Vertici 11 ium psall iotae isolated from phyto-
nematode cysts.
MISCELLANEOUS
R. A. Humber informs us that the USDA offers catalogs of the Insect Pathology Research Unit's
1400+ strain col lecti on of entomopathogeni c fungi which includes more than 100 taxa
from nearly the entire taxonomic spectrum of such fungi.
G. S. de Hoog notes that supplements to the CBS List of Cultures (November 1983) are pub-
1 ished in the semiannual CBS Newsletter. (See Publications Available for address--ed.).
To A Mycologist
We work together every night
with open books and one-edged razor blades
by wavering fl uorescent 1 i ght
while spore prints form and color fades.
Your voice and late-night jazz provide
a 1 i tmus zone between the coffee's acid taste
and my basic need to close my eyes.
As I revive thin sections on a slide
and throw away contaminated plates
you interrupt your work with yawns and sighs
then put another index card in place.
Our mushrooms must be dried to keep
and so in us the juices cease to flow
from overwork and lack of sleep;
but no place else the two of us would go.
-- Nina Shishkoff