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ram. 
a little pronounced. And I find precisely the same modification of 
structure in a well-marked, purchased specimen collected in the 
Pyrenees; as in other European ones. In the fruit, while not in this 
really separable from the foreign plant, ours is variously emphasized; 
the New Mexican specimens offering flat and well-margined, glaucous- 
pruinose apothecia, and those from Washington Territory naked ones, 
in which the disk finally equals and surpasses the margin, and the 
fruit becomes, curiously glyphidoid-difform, an anamorphosis to be 
observed now in extreme forms of Z. cinerea, v. gibbosa^ Nyl. (Cali- 
fornia; H. Mann) and noticeably enough prefigured, in both lichens, 
by the J^er/usaria-like younger conditions. The described margin of 
the disk of Z. melanaspis is indistinct or obsolete commonly here, as 
it appears to be, for the most part, elsewhere. 
But I have also to notice a fruticulose member of a genus not be- 
fore known to exhibit this kind of thallus: 
Staurothele Brandegei, sp. nov, — Thallo fruticuloso (alt. 
3-5"^"*') erecto, e tereti ramulis dactylinis obsesso mox compresso et 
superne dilat'ato lobatoque, in crustam verrucosam plus minus stipato, 
fusco, subtus dilutius; apotheciis globosis (lat. o"""'* ,3-5)-^ ^P^i^ 
solitariae visai, muriformi-multiloculares, nigro-fusc^e, longit. 
,026-50, crassit o""'"^', 020-24, paraphysibus diffluxis. 
Mountains of Washington Territory; T. S. Brandegee, in herb. 
Sprague. The internal structure oi the thallus offers no differences 
from that of the umbrina-%\oc\i. This group, which is not uncommon 
both west of the Rocky Mountains and in the Appalachian system, 
offers other marked evidences of its superior rank in the Tribe, ex- 
hibiting now an effigurate and even lobulate circumference, which, 
scarcely more than hypothalline in the European Dermatocarpon Am- 
brosiantim^ Mass, {Lic/t. ItaL n, 30) is here (in the eastern S* Drum- 
mondii and S, Petersit) very distinctly thalline, and occurs (in Ore- 
gon specimens very close to S, umbrina^ in herb. Sprague) with much 
the aspect of a reduced form of Lecanora 7nolybdina (Wahl.) Ach. 
Hymenial gonidia of S. Brandegei oblong, guttated, o™^* ,006-12 
long, and o""""', 0025-40 thick. 
New Species of Fungi. 
By Chas. H, Peck. 
POLYPORUS DELECTANS.— Pileus sessile, convex or subtriquetrous, 
frequently elongated, simple or subimbricated, fleshy-fibrous, becom- 
ing corky, azonate, glabrous or slightly floccose-tofnentose, uneven, 
white becoming yellowish, the margin acute; pores plain or slightly 
concave, decurrent, large, unequal, subrotund or angular, whitish, the 
dissepiments at length acute, dentate or lacerate; spores subglobose 
or broadly elliptical, .00025 to .0003 in. long. Pdeus 2 to 4 inches 
long, about 2 inches broad. 
Prostrate trunks in woods, Ohio; A. P. Morgan. The species 
belongs to the Anodermei, section Carnosi, and is related to such 
species as P, lacteus, P. destructor^ etc. From the former its large 
pores will distinguish it, from the latter its paler color and the entire 
absence of zones both without and within, and from P. molUusculus 
both the absence of zones and the much thicker substance will scpar- 
