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1896, Professor Earle reports a very prolific growth of fleshy spe- 
cies, and among them he sent a very interesting series of the cen- 
tral and lateral stemmed forms of the genera Polyporus. These, 
together with a few others collected by myself in the same region, 
and one or two from elsewhere, are described below. For con- 
venience the genera and species are arranged alphabetically. 
HyYDNUM CHRYSOCOMUM DN. sp. 
Resupinate, forming areas 2-6 cm. each way; mycelial strands 
-wide-creeping, more or less branched, bright orange-yellow, ex- 
panding here and there to form a membranous subiculum bear- 
ing the bright orange-yellow spines; subiculum thin, whitish 
fimbriate at the margin, yellowish within and later bright orange- 
yellow ; spines crowded, I mm. or more long, often confluent so 
as to appear flattened, terete when single, concolorous, rather 
obtuse. 
Growing under much decayed sticks, New Dorp, Staten Is- 
land, New York, October 17, 1896. Smaller and imperfect 
specimens had been previously found in Indiana and Alabama, 
with well-developed mycelium and scanty spines. A well-marked 
species and easily recognized by its brilliant mycelial strands and 
the color of its spines. 
LEPIOTA MAMMAEFORMIS 0. sp. 
Pileus thin, white, with a dull brownish strongly umbonate 
disc, 5-8 cm. in diameter, mealy squamulose, the margin strongly 
sulcate-striate, somewhat incurved; gills rather narrow, moderately 
close; stem 12-18 cm. long, flexuous, hollow, tapering upward 
from an elongate thickened base, over 1 cm. at its greatest thick- 
ness, the narrow distant annulus often finally deciduous. 
Growing caespitosely from near the base of a decaying Arous- 
sinetia on the streets of Auburn, Alabama, July 1896. The gills 
turn darker in drying and the umbo becomes strikingly prominent. 
LeEptToGiossuM ALABAMENSE N. sp. 
Black throughout, gregarious, 2-3 cm. high. Ascoma about 
1 cm. long, flattened, in the dry condition about 2 mm. wide and 
0.5 mm. thick, blunt or rounded, horny, yellowish within; stem 
roughened, somewhat enlarged at base; spores hyaline, straight or 
slightly more or less curved, biseriate in. the asci, becoming 4- 
septate, 18-20x 4; paraphyses abundant, thickened and darker 
colored at the tip. 
On the ground, Auburn, Alabama. July. 
