CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. 159 



FUNGI OF THE PACIFIC COAST. 



BY H. W. HARKNESS. 



Hydnum gelatinosum Scop. — Collected by E. J. Molera, 

 on Pseudotsuga Douglasii, Lagunitas. Feb. 1885. 3910. 



Sparassis crispa Fr. — Brought from Coos Bay, Oregon, 

 Feb. 1885, by Capt. George A. Holt. One of the esculent 

 fungi; sufficient to afford a meal for a large family, the spec- 

 imen being 18 inches in diameter. 3911. 



Tremella moriformis Berk. — On Aplopappus ericoid"S, 

 San Francisco, Jan. 2971. 



Phallus impudicus Linn. — On sand hills near San Fran- 

 cisco, June. 2575. 



Polyplocium inquinans Berk. — What we take to be this 

 species, was found last year at Roseville; Folsom; in Lake 

 County, and at Tehachapi. Some of the specimens were 

 very large: pileus 12 cm. across, and stipe 12 — 16 cm. long, 

 very thick and stout. In many cases the volvaeforni perid- 

 ium does not rupture at all, and the hymenium is exposed 

 from the destruction of the stem by the larvas of insects, 

 which seem exceedingly fond of it, as it is impossible to find 

 one half-grown not already infested. 3876. 



P. Californicum. Peridium grayish, soon rupturing, and 

 widely separated by the slender elongating stipe, which is 

 10 — 20 cm. long, and 1 — ! J cm. in diameter: pileus flat or de- 

 pressed, 2 — 4 cm. broad: hymenium rusty-black soon dusty; 

 spores dark reddish-brown, nearly globular, 6 — 8 pi. — Sand 

 hills west of San Francisco, June. So far we have never 

 succeeded in finding it in the young state. It is very dis- 

 tinct from the first species, and bears a considerable resem- 

 blance to the next genus. 2580. 



