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Chondriopsis ieiuiissima, Ag. 



C. tenmssima, van Baileyana^ Farl. Both common. 



PolysipJionia urceolata (Dilhv.), Grev. Not very common 



P, Harveyi, Bail. Common. 



P. varie^ata, Agf. Common. 



>,---*.►, •* ^t> 



P, atroriibescens^ Grev. Not very common. 



Polysiph 



mg 



Common and variable; includ- 



s, vdiV. fticoideSy Ag., 



iffi 



Bostrycliia rivnlaris^ Harv. Common on bridges, etc. 



Dasya elegans^ Ag. Common. 



Meiobesia farinosa, Lamour. On Phyllophora ; rare. 



Frank S. Collins. 



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Notes on the Development of Corynites Curtissii, B. 



Plate LXXXVI. 



July 



enough to find in a small patch of woods a number of specimens 

 of undeveloped Phalli. Watching them with interest for a week 

 or ten days, a fully developed specimen was found which proved 

 to be Corynites Curtissii. The development of these specimens 

 was so interesting that it is here put upon record, together with 

 some of the figures draAvn at the time. 



Arranged in the apparent order of their development they 

 are numbered one to ten on the plate.* The first figure shows 

 the outer wall surrounding a mass of grayish, glairy matter, in 

 the centre of which is a white column, surmounted by a two- 

 lobed mass of dark brown or blackish matter. Figure 2 shows 

 the beginning, in the centre of the column, of what is eventually 

 to be the stipe, the dark mass still present at the top. In figure 

 3 the dark mass is larger. Figure 4 shows a marked change. 

 The stipe begins to be plainly manifest The little pits represent 

 what develop finally into openings; the second layer represents 

 the inner wall of the peridium, while the dark mass of matter at 

 the top, gradually diminishing in size, is what probably eventually 

 forms the gleba and contains the spores. Figure 5 does not 

 show the stipe, a fact which may be due to a defect in section- 

 ing, but the gleba (?) has diminished in size and is partly torn away 

 from the central column, F'^ieure 6 is a much more advanced 





