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of onr species as are not described in any of our manuals. These 

 descriptions and remarks on the genus will be found in another 

 part of the report. 



Daphne mezereum L. 



Gravesville, Herkimer co. Mrs M. S. DeCoster. The spurge 

 laurel or mezereon is an introduced shrub. It is sometimes culti- 

 vated but escapes from cultivation and grows wild. 



Entoloma griseum n. sp. 



Pileus fleshy, firm, broadly campanulate or convex, obtuse or 

 slightly umbonate, glabrous, often irregular, hygrophanous, 

 grayish brown when moist, paler when dry, flesh whitish, odor 

 and taste farinaceous; lamellae adnexed, emarginate, with a de- 

 current tooth, about 2 lines broad, pale pink; stem equal or 

 slightly tapei*ing upward, silky fibrillose, pruinose or mealy at 

 the top, stuffed or hollow, grayish white; spores angular, nearly 

 as broad as long, .0003 of an inch long. 



Pileus 1-3 inches broad; stem 1-2 inches long, 3-5 lines thick. 

 Under spruce and balsam fir trees. Lake Pleasant. August. 



It is closely related to E. grayanum from which it may be 

 separated by its darker color, more narrow gills and different 

 place of growth. 



Euonymus obovatus Nutt. 



Woods. Silver creek, Chautauqua co. L. W. Hahn. 



This decumbent or trailing shrub was reported by Dr Torrey to 

 belong to our flora, but he considered it a mere variety of 

 Euonymus a m e r i c a n u s . It is now regarded as a dis- 

 tinct species differing from the strawberry bush in its smaller 

 flowers, obtuse and more finely crenulate leaves, earlier time of 

 floAvering and decumbent or trailing mode of growth. 



Geoglossum farlowi Cke. 

 Fishers island, Suffolk co. September. C. C. Hanmer. This 

 fungus is much like G.hirsutum in external appearance, but 

 its spores have but three septa. 



Haplosporella maclurae E. & B. 

 Dead stems of wistaria. Geneva. April. F. C. Stewart. 



