- firmly rooting. Flesh and gills white, the latter changing to ful . 
_ vous hue in drying. Slightly acrid. Stem very glutinous, at length 
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§ 119. Cephalanthus occidentalis, L.—A number of years ago, 
when I was beginning to botanize, and first found this plant, on the 
outlet of Owasco Lake, where it grows luxuriantly, I found, on ex- 
amining the specimens I had gathered, that they had all the flowers, 
without exception, with a 5-parted corolla It puzzled me greatly, 
though I finally made it out; but never since then have I seen it 
with any 5-parted corollas. Later observation has made me fa- 
miliar with such freaks, but the fact seems worth recording. 
I cannot help observing here, that wherever I have seen this 
plant, except when cultivated, [have always found Saururus cer- 
nuus growing near it. In the locality above mentioned, particularly, 
the Saururus grows in great luxuriance, filling the little bays and 
coves in the outlet; so that the waves from a passing boat make it 
nod tnd undulate; looking much like a field of grain waving in the 
wind. 
This again reminds me that Mr. Bower has frequently told me 
that he never found Schizea pusilla far away from Lycopodium 
Carolinianum, ‘This association of plants, of which doubtless many 
more instances might be given, is frequently an index showing» 
where to look for a desired specimen. L Hobe 
§ 120. Asclepias verticillata, L.—Mr. F. A. Pollard has given us 
a bit of this plant which he gathered at High Bridge, the 24th of 
last August. Mr. O. W. Morris had previously found it on New 
York Island, but it has not hitherto been reported from here. Pr 
- $121. New Fungi, by E. C. Howx, Yonkers, N. Y.—Wo. 71. 
1. Agaricus (Amanita) onustus, . sp.—Pileus 5-6 in. broad, 
brownish gray, clothed with dust colored warts which easily rub 
off (persistent about the dark centre), leaving spots of a deeper 
brown; margin thick, not at all striate; stem 3 in. high, 1 in. thick, — 
_ attenuated upwards, enlarging as it enters the cap, farinose, ring- 
_less, white, stuffed, concentrically squamulose below, the large bulb 
_ hard and fibrous. June. Deeply shaded grass land. oe 
2. Agaricus (Amanita) soleatus, 7. s.—Pileus 2-24 in. broad, 
fulvous brown, somewhat uneven, with patches of tomentum, 
_ Sprinkled with a fine, dingy, yellow powder; margin thin, striate; — 
‘Stem 2 In, high, 3-4 lines thick, ringless, smooth, attenuated down — 
wards, fistulose ; yolva 1 in, broad, even, entire or with a shallow — 
Wao 3. gills whitish, changing toa cinerous brown in drying. June. 
8. Dothidea abnormis, n. sp. —Stroma, irregular, carbonaceous, 
uneven; asci, long, cylindrical, containing 8 oblong-elliptic, brown: 
uniseriate spores. The basal portion often extended into a thin 
layer. Resembles Hypoxylon. On Smilax rotundifolia. 
4.D iatrype (Diatrypella) prominens, 7. sp.—Prominently rat 
above the inner bark, the ruptured epidermis adherent, someti! 
lobed, brown, black, or gray, subrotund, often confluent; pe 
cia globose, covered with a whitish stroma; ostiola large, b 
_ asci clavate or subfusiform; sporidia numerons, curved, yello 
a without nuclei. Bark of Platanus. On fallen wet bark th 
- are green and distorted. = anc a 
