154 Peck ; New species of fungi 



Pileus 2-2.5 ^^- latus ; stipes 2.5-3,5 cm, longus, 1.5—2 mm 



crassus. 



Boletus Mornsu 



Pileus fleshy, convex, dry, glabrous, smoky brown with a 

 yellow margin or yellow and red with brown spots, the margin 

 surpassing the tubules, flesh pale yellow ; tubules at first short, 

 minute, bright yellow, then elongated, convex in mass, orange- 

 brown, rounded behind and depressed about the stem or free, the 

 mouths larger, subrotund ; stem equal or slightly thickened toward 

 the base, Solid, punctate with minute reddish dots, yellowish ex- 

 ternally, pale yellow within and sometimes streaked with reddish 

 brown ; spores oblong fusiform, 10-15 fi x 4-5 //. 



Pileus 2.5-8 cm- broad ; stem 5-8 cm. long, 8-12 mm. thick. 



In sandy soil under scrub oaks. Ellis, Massachusetts. August 



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G. E. Morris. The species belongs to the section £du/es, and is 

 well marked by its dotted stem. 



Pileus carneus, convexus, siccus, glaber, fumoso-brunneus, in 

 margine lutescens, margine tubulos excedente, carne flavida ; tubuli 

 primo brevisslmi, minuti, aurei, deinde elongati, convexi, circum 

 stipitem depress! vel liberl, subrotundi, aurantiaco-brunnei ; stipes 

 aequalis vel leviter basi incrassatus, solidus, punctis minutis rufes- 

 centibus asperatus, extus lutescens, intus flavidus vel colore rufo- 

 brunneo tinctus ; sporae oblongo-fusiformes, 12-18// x 4-5 /i. 

 • Pileus 2.5-8 cm. latus ; stipes 5-8 cm. longus, 8-12 mm. 



crassus. 



Herpotrichia rhodospiloides 



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Perithecia gregarious, globose, seated on or involved in an 

 effused thin black tomentum, subglabrous and dull reddish brown 

 or grayish at the apex, sometimes entirely black ; ostiola obscurely 

 lacerated J asci clavate or subcylindric, 60-100// long, 10-12 /.i 



rm 



straight or slightly curved, uniseptate with one or two nuclei in 

 each cell, hyaline, becoming slightly colored with age, 16-20 /x X 

 6-8 fx. 



On decorticated wood of cottonwood, Popuhis deltoides Marsh. 

 Batesville, Arkansas. October. Elam Bartholomew. 



The fungus forms thin somewhat interrupted black patches on 

 the surface of the wood. The tomentum is composed of slender 



black flexuous filaments. 



trie hi a rhodospila (B. & C.) 



to Herpo- 

 the paler 



color of the apex of the perithecium and in having uniseptate 



