Io8 AGARICINI. 



This is Prof. Peck's C. dichotomus in his Twenty-third Report ; he 

 was not sTtisfied at that time of the identity, but he now considers it the 

 same as Fries's umbonatus on account of the prominent boss on the 

 pileus. The pileus is of a steel blue, the folds of the hymenium are 

 branched, from which character Peck had named it dichotomus. 



It lives along mossy banks. The specimens were found in Stephen's 

 woods, near Hartzell schoolhouse. 



C. minor. Pk. Small Cantharelle. 



Pileus, fleshy, thin, convex, then expanded, often umbili- 

 cate or centrally depressed, glabrous, yellow, flesh pale yellow. 



Gills, narrow, distant, sparingly branched, yellow. 



Stem, slender, subflexous, subequal, smooth, stuffed or 

 hollow, yellow, with a whitish mycelium at base. 



Spores, subelliptical, .00025 to .0003 inch long, .00016 to 

 .0002 inch broad. 



Plant gregarious or subcaespitose, one to one and one-fifth 



inches high, pileus six to twelve lines broad, stem one to two 



lines thick. — Peck' s Reports. 



Common on clay bank in open woods in the Valley. On Koch's Island 

 and Dorney's woods near AUentown. 



Gknus XXXVII. NYCTAI^IS. Kr. 



Veil universal, floccoso-pruinose, subgelatinous. 



N. asterophora. Fr. Star-bearing Nyctalis. 



Pileus, small, barely a half-inch in diameter, convex, 

 conical, flocco-pruinose. 



Gills, often wanting ; if present, adnate, distant, white, 

 forked. 



Stem, stuffed, pruinose, brownish. 



The only specimen of this species was found near Cedar Creek. Para- 

 sitic on Russula nigricans. 



