30 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 



Under shrubby oaks, at the Golden Gate Park, San Fran- 

 cisco, Jan. 2204. 



Differs from 0. carnea, Corda, in color, and in the acute 

 spines upon the epispore of the latter — of which a form 

 found growing in this vicinity, reached 4 cm. in diameter. 



Gautiera monticola. 



Dark brown, irregularly lobed, 10 cm. in breadth, uni- 

 formly about 3 cm. in thickness, nearly plane above and be- 

 low; stipe short and slender; stroma ferruginous brown; 

 basidia apparently always 2-spored; sterigmata filiform; 

 spores pale brown, elliptic or obovate, apiculate, longitudi- 

 nally, or somewhat obliquely striate. /< 10 — 12 X 7 — 8. 



Found (a solitary specimen) in vegetable humus, at the 

 root of the Grizzly Giant, in the Mariposa Big Tree Grove, 

 July, 1883. 3543. 



With the odor of decaying onions. 



Splanchnomyces Behrii. 



Cinnamon-brown, irregularly lobed, lacunose, 1 — 4 cm. in 

 diameter; absorbing base inconspicuous; basidia 2-spored: 

 sterigmata short, filiform; spores very unequal in size, yel- 

 lowish-brown, oval or elliptic, apiculate by the remains of 

 the sterigmata, pitted all over with minute irregular depres- 

 sions, fx 10 — 15 x 10. 



Growing in vegetable humus in Wildwood Glen above 

 the reservoir, Sausalito, Dec. 2911. 



Named in recognition of the valuable assistance of the 

 frequent companion of our collecting excursions, Dr. H. H. 

 Behr. 



Exobasidium arctostaphyli. 



Receptaculum broadly effused, bright rosy-red, becoming 

 pruinose, thickening but only slightly distorting the affected 

 parts; spores hyaline, fusiform, straight, yu 10 — 12 X 4 — 5. 



On young shoots and leaves of Arctostaphylos pungens. 

 Tamalpais, May, June. 3317. 



