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ing remnants of the veil. A slight radish-hke odor is perceptible when 

 the pileus is cut or broken. 



The plants grow gregariously and bear some resemblance to Naucoria 

 semiorbicularis, but the color of the spores and of the mature lamellae 

 abundantly distinguishes the species. 



Naucoria temulenta Fr. 

 Damp ground in woods. Adirondack mountains. September. 



Coprinus stenocoleus Lindb. 



Dung heaps and manured ground, Menands and Rathboneville, 

 June and August. 



This is apparently a rare species, but one well marked by the volva 

 closely sheathing the base of the stem and spreading at its upper margin 

 into a sort of collar. Two other species, C. sterqiiili?ius and C. obkctus, 

 have a similar volva at the base of the stem but from both it may be dis- 

 tinguished by the character of the pileus. In the former the pileus is scaly 

 on the disk only, in the latter it is without scales, but in C. ste^iocoleus it is 

 everyw here adorned with white floccose scales. European authors seem to 

 have neglected to describe the spores of this species. In our specimens 

 they are elliptical, black, .0008 to .001 in. long, .0005 broad. The illus- 

 tration given by Fries in Icones tab. 140 f. i, is of the mature plant. 

 When younger it is paler and might, by careless observation, be mis- 

 taken for C. fimetarius or C. comatus. 



Russuia cutefracta Cke. 

 Woods. Delmar. October. , 



Polyporus perplexus* «. sp. 



Pileus spongy-fleshy, fibrous, sessile, commonly imbricated and some- 

 what confluent, irregular, hairy-tomentose to setose-hispid, grayish 

 tawny or ferruginous, the margin subacute, sterile, substance within 

 tawny-ferruginous, somewhat zonate ; pores 2 to 3 lines long, unequal, 

 angular, the dissepiments becoming brownish-ferruginous with age or 

 where bruised; spores ferruginous, broadly elliptical, .00024 to .0003 in. 

 long, about .0002 broad. 



Pileus 2 to 4 in. broad. Trunks of beech trees. Remsen, Oneida 

 county. September. \ 



This is allied to such species as P. cuticularis and P. hispidus, but 

 from the former it is separated by the straight margin of the pileus and 

 from the latter by its smaller size and smaller spores. 



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