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1896, Professor Earle reports a very prolific growth of fleshy spe- 

 cies, and among them he sent a v^ry interesting series of the cen- 

 tral and lateral stemmed forms of the genera Polyporus. These, 

 together with a few others collected by myself in the same region, 

 and one or two from elsewhere, are described below. For con- 

 venience the genera and species are arranged alphabetically. 



Hydnum chrysocomum n. sp. 



Resupinate, forming areas 2-6 cm. each way ; mycelial strands 

 wide-creeping, more or less branched, bright orange-yellow, ex- 

 panding here and there to form a membranous subiculum bear- 

 ing the bright orange-yellow spines; subiculum thin, whitish 

 fimbriate at the margin, yellowish within and later bright orange- 

 yellow ; spines crowded, i mm. or more long, often confluent so 

 as to appear flattened, terete when single, concolorous, rather 

 obtuse. 



Growing under much decayed sticks. New Dorp, Staten Is- 

 land, New York, October 17, 1896. Smaller and imperfect 

 specimens had been previously found in Indiana and Alabama, 

 with well-developed mycelium and scanty spines, A well-marked 

 species and easily recognized by its brilliant mycelial strands and 

 the color of its spines. 



Lepiota mammaeformis n. sp. 



Pileus thin, white, with a dull brownish strongly umbonate 

 disc, 5-8 cm. in diameter, mealy squamulose, the margin strongly 

 sulcate- striate, somewhat incurved ; gills rather narrow, moderately 

 close; stem 12-18 cm. long, flexuous, hollow, tapering upward 

 from an elongate thickened base, over i cm. at its greatest thick- 

 ness, the narrow distant annulus often finally deciduous. 



Growing caespitosely from near the base of a decaying Broiis- 

 sinetia on the streets of Auburn, Alabama, July 1896. The gills 

 turn darker in drying and the umbo becomes strikingly prominent. 



Leptoglossum Alabamense n. sp. 



Black throughout, gregarious, 2-3 cm. high. Ascoma about 

 I cm. long, flattened, in the dry condition about 2 mm. wide and 

 0.5 mm. thick, blunt or rounded, horny, yellowish within ; stem 

 roughened, somewhat enlarged at base ; spores hyaline, straight or 

 slightly more or less curved, biseriate in the asci, becoming 4- 

 septate, 18-20x4//; paraphyses abundant, thickened and darker 

 colored at the tip. 



On the ground. Auburn, Alabama. July. 



