102 Peck : NEW SPECIES OF FUNGI 
Pileus 2-3 cm. broad; stem 2-3 cm. long, 3-4 mm. thick. 
Ground in woods. Blue Mounds, Wisconsin. August. J. J. 
Neuman. 
This species is remarkable for the peculiar character of the 
stem. This resembles the stems of some species of He/ve/la and 
by reason of it I have ventured to give an imperfect description of 
the species. No notes concerning the colors of the fresh plant 
were furnished by the discoverer. 
Clavaria amethystinoides 
Clubs 2-4 cm. tall, with few rather short suberect branches, 
very pale-lilac, becoming drab-gray in drying, the branches often 
compressed and rugose, more or less pruinose when dry, the tips 
commonly acute ; spores globose, 8 y in diameter. 
- Among sphagnum. Stow, Massachusetts. September.  S. 
Davis. 
This species is evidently related to C. amethystina Bull. and 
C. Schaffert Sacc. From the former it is separated by its different 
mode of branching and its globose spores; from the latter, to 
which it seems more closely allied, by its simple, not cestipose 
mode of growth, by the acute or mucronate tips of the branches, 
and by the pruinose character of the branches, which also are often 
rugose and irregular. 
Peckiella hymenioides 
Subiculum thin, downy-tomentose, white, overrunning the 
hymenium of the host plant ; perithecia subglobose, partly con- 
cealed by the subiculum, pale-amber becoming blackish-brown ; 
asci slender, cylindric, 8-spored, 60-80 pw long, 5-6 broad ; 
spores simple, subfusiform, pointed or acute at each end, 12-15 /4 
long, 4—5 » broad. 
On the hymenium of Lactarius uvidus Fr. Newfane, Vermont. 
August. Miss G. S. Burlingham. This species is very similar in 
external appearance to Peckiella hymenit Peck, but its asci are 
much shorter, its spores smaller, and its subiculum thinner. The 
milk of the host plant was still present at the time when the speci- 
mens were collected. 
Leotia punctipes 
Receptacle subglobose, undulate, gyrose, very lustrous, dark- 
green, 4-8 mm. broad in the dried specimens ; stem slender, 1.8 
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