REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST 35 



Living or languishing leaves of northern bedstraw, Galium boreale. 

 Charlottevilie swamp, Schoharie county. August. 

 The affected leaves become yellowish or brown. 



Anthurus borealis Burt. 



Sandy soil. East Galway, Saratoga county. September. E. A. Burt. 



This rare but beautiful phalloid fungus was found in a cornfield by 



Prof. Burt, who has figured and described it. He has kindly contributed 



to the State Herbarium the only dried specimen now known to be in 



existence. 



Lycoperdon Turner! E. b' E. 



Ground in woods. Guilderland. October. 



Lycoperdon Muscorum Morg. 



Mossy ground. West Albany. October. This beautiful puff-ball was 

 formerly confused with L. molle. 



Lycoperdon elong-atum Berk. 



Bethlehem, Albany county. September. W. Frothingham. 

 This species is closely allied to Z. glabelluin. Its stout elongated base 

 serves as a mark of distinction. 



\ 

 Lycoperdon rimulatum Pk. 



Ground in fields and thin woods. Ticonderoga and Karner. August 

 to October. 



By an unfortunate typographical error this species bears the name 



L. svnuhtum in Sylloge Vol. ix, p. 276. Descriptions of it have been 



published by Prof Trelease in Trans, of Wis. Acad. Sci. Arts and Letters; 



1888, p. 117, and by A. P. Morgan in Jour. Cin. Soc. Nat. Hist. 1891, 



p. 12. 



iEcidium hepaticatum Schv. 



Living leaves of Hepatica acuiiloba. Wood's pond, Cayuga county. 

 May. C. Atwood. 



The fungus occupies the whole lower surface of the leaf. The infested 

 leaves are five-lobed and much smaller than healthy leaves. 



Coniothecium saccharinum ;/. sp. 



Heaps effused, forming a thin continouus or interrupted, sometimes 

 separable, black crust ; spores unequal, variable, subglobose elliptical or 

 irregular, commonly .001 to .0016 in. long, colored, opaque, few or many- 

 celled, the cells .0004 to .0005 in. broad. 



