2 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
lamellae plane or slightly arcuate in mass, narrow, close, rounded © 
behind, adnexed, white or whitish, becoming dingy or tinged with 
reddish brown when old; stem short, nearly equal, solid or stuffed, 
slightly pruinose at the top, more or less white tomentose at the base, 
colored like the pileus; spores oblong or subfusiform, 10-12 x 
3-5-4 b- 
Pileus 5-10 cm broad; stem 2.5-—5 cm long, 1.5-2 cm thick. Gre- 
garious. Woods, Vaughns. September. S. H. Burnham. 
Pileus carneus, firmus, flexuosus, late convexus vel subplanus, 
humidus, glaber, albus albidusve, carne albus, sapor ungratus ; lamel- 
lae planae vel leviter arcuatae; confertae, angustae, adnexae, albae 
albidaeve, in senectute sordidae; stipes brevis, subaequalis, solidus 
vel farctus, ad apicem subpruinosus, basi albotomentosus, pileo 
similis coloratus; sporae oblongae vel subfusiformes, 10-12 x 
3-5-4 B- 
Tricholoma piperatum Pk. 
Orient Point. November. R. Latham. 
Tricholoma subpulverulentum (Pers.) Fr. 
Near Rochester. October. W. E. Abbs. Only two specimens 
were received. The species has been regarded as edible, but it was 
not possible to obtain enough fairly to try its edible quality. 
Urophlyctis major Schroet. 
Living or languishing leaves of water plantain, Alisma 
plantago-aqutatica L. Ithaca flats. July. B. Bo oigeme 
Communicated by G. F. Atkinson. 
Vermicularia hysteriiformis n. sp. 
Perithecia thin, oval,or oblong, .4-.8 mm long, shining, black, 
covered by the epidermis and at length adorned with numerous 
subulate divergent black or brown setae; spores narrowly fusiform, 
acute at each end, slightly curved, hyaline, 20-30 x 3-4 up. 
Dead stems of blue cohosh, Caulophyllum thalic- 
troides (L.) Mx. Troupsburg, Steuben co. May. 
A species very distinct from all others by the shape of the peri- 
thecia which appear longer than broad through the epidermis, re- 
sembling in this respect some species of Hysterium. 
Perithecia tenua, ovalia oblongave, .4-.8 mm longa, nitida, atra, 
primum epidermide tecta, demum setis numeris subulatis, divergen- 
