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brown and subcampanulate or convex with age, striate, glabrous, 
odor strong, flavor disagreeable, properties poisonous; lamellae 
subdistant, rather narrow, adnate, white or whitish; stem long 
or short, straight or flexuous, hollow, glabrous, bright lemon 
yellow; spores broadly ellipsoid or subglobose, 6-8 x 4-6 p. 
Pileus 10-20 mm broad; stem 5-30 cm long, 1-2 mm thick. 
Decaying pine leaves. Richmond co. November. W. H. 
Ballou. 
This is a dangerous or poisonous species. A single plant chewed 
and possibly a little of it swallowed caused sickness for some time. 
Pileus tenuis, submembraneus, primum ovalis superiore brun- 
neus, inferiore luteus, demum_ griseo-viridis, | straitus, con- 
vexus subcampanulatusve, glaber, graveolens, flavor ingratus, 
venenus; lamellae subdistantes, angustae adnatae, albae albi- 
daeve; stipes longus brevisve, rectus flexuosuve, cavus, glaber, 
luteus ; sporae late ellipsoideae vel subglobosae, 6-8 x 4-6 p. 
Opegrapha herpetica Ach. 
Onvbasswood, Lilia americana L; Orient Point. June. 
R. Latham. Determined by G. K. Merrill who says of it, “ the 
first American specimen I have seen.” 
Penicillium hypomycetes Sacc. 
On the inner bark of an unknown tree. Albany. March. D. B. 
Young. 
Pestalozzia truncata Lev. 
On cone scales of Norway spruce, Picea excelsa Link. 
Albany. April. S.H. Burnham. The name of this species is sug- 
gested by the fact that in old spores the terminal hyaline cells fall 
away leaving the colored central part with truncate ends. 
Phialea anomala n. sp. 
Receptacle thin, broadly cupulate or disciform, 1.5-3 mm broad, 
externally clothed with small, tawny, radiating fibrils, the margin 
incurved, entire; stem slender, firm, flexuous, .5-1.5 cm long, tawny, 
fibrillose, tomentose, fulvous; hymenium greenish black; asci 
cylindric or subclavate, eight-spored, spores ellipsoid or somewhat 
narrowed toward the base, continuous, hyaline, 10-12 x 4-5 p, para- 
physes filiform. 
On dead herbaceous stems or twigs in wet places. Remsen, 
Oneida co. August. 
