102 NOTICES OF NORTH AMERICAN FUNGI. 



Pileus tobacco-coloured, coriaceous dimidiate, decurrent behind; 

 concentrically sulcate, 1J-2 inches across ; teeth short, irregular, 

 compressed, with a greenish bloom. This is Ilydnum trachyodon. 

 Lev. From Bogota. It is found also in Cuba. 



— 198. Irpex tab acinus. B. $ C— Breviter reflexus subzonatus 

 pubescens postice longe decurrens kete tabacinus. Hymenio con- 

 colore; dentibus compressis. No. 2353, 2932. Car. Inf. 2922. 

 Car. Inf. A Polyporoid form. No. 3152. Texas, C. Wright 

 (1088. Eav;. 



Shortly reflexed, imbricated, decurrent behind, velvety, some- 

 times zoned, bright brown ; hymenium of the same colour ; teeth 

 compressed. Allied to the last, but the teeth have not the bloom 

 of that species, and the pileus is less dimidiate. 



-199. Irpex pity reus. B. $ C. — Parvus, brunneus ; pileo con- 

 chiformi subvelutino sericeo, ezonato ; hymenio concolore ; den- 

 tibus compressis. No. 6329. Rhode Island, Bennett. 



Pileus scarcely J inch across, conchiform, brown, somewhat 

 velvety, silky towards the margin ; hymenium of the same colour ; 

 teeth compressed. Allied to the two last. 



* Irpex cinnamomeus. Fr.~ No. 1005, 1006, 1642, 1978. Car. 

 Inf. No. 436, 447, 875. Car. Sup. 



- 200. Irpex Schweinitzii. B. $ C— Resupinatus, subiculo mem- 

 branaceo, separabili, margine sterili, brevi, byssoideo ; dentibus 

 carneo-griseis compressis. No. 4655. Alabama, Beaumont. 



Scarcely exceeding ^ an inch in breadth ; suborbicular ; subi- 

 culum thin, membranaceous, byssoid, separable from the matrix ; 

 teeth confined to the centre, compressed, pinkish-grey, subporiform. 



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Schistostega Osmundacea. — Your correspondent (\V. \V. 

 Reeves) is in error concerning this moss, as I find it abundantly 

 at Guildford, in the holes made by sand martins. It was first 

 pointed out to me by the celebrated cryptogamist, Mr. Borrer, in 

 1852-3. E. Capron. 



Uromyces Behenis. Lev — " Campion Uromyces." On both 

 surfaces of the leaves, and on the stems ; pustules subrotund or 

 confluent, for a long time covered by the cuticle; spores coherent, 

 ovoid, brown, on long hyaline pedicels. — Leveille. Ann. Des Sc. 

 Nat. viii. (1847), pp. 371 Kickx. Fl. Crypt, ii., p. 75. Uredo 

 behenis, D.C. FL Fr. vi.,p. 63. Cceoma behenis, Link. Sp. ii., 27. 



On Silene injiata in company with jrEcidium behenis. Near 

 Chichester (Dr. Paxton). Aug. 



