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Puccinia simillima Arthur 

 Leaves and sheaths ofPhragmites phrag mites. Near 

 Savannah, Wayne co. September. 



Paspalum muhlenbergii Nash 

 Bedford Park, Westchester co. September. S. H. Burnham. 



Paspalum prostratum Nash 

 Sandy soil. Manor, Suffolk co. August. 



Russula densifolia Seer. 

 Among decaying leaves in woods. Lake Pleasant. August. 

 This species is closely related to R. a d u s t a from which it 

 may be separated by the slight reddening of the flesh where 

 wounded. Our specimens are a peculiar form in which many of 

 the lamellae are forked at the base. They also separate at the 

 inner extremity from the stem and pileus and curl outward reveal- 

 ing the hymenophore beneath. All the specimens found exhibited 

 this character. It indicates a feeble attachment of the hymenium 

 to the hymenophore and is suggestive of a relationship to the 

 genus Paxillus. The white spores, however, show that it is not 

 referable to that genus. It may be called variety p a x i 1 - 



1 o i d es . 



Russula furcata (Pers.) Fr. 



Ground in woods. Near Albany. July. An edible species. 



Sarcoscypha rhenana FcM. 



Capular, stipitate or subsessile, single or cespitose, often irreg- 

 ular, incurved on the margin when young, externally pruinose 

 tomentose, pale yellow; hymenium pale yellow becoming orange 

 tinted with age or in drying, sometimes slightly pruinose; stem 

 short or almost none, when well developed whitened by a short 

 downy tomentum ; asci cylindric ; spores elliptic, verrucose, .0008- 

 .0009 of an inch long, .0004-.00t)5 broad, commonly containing one 

 or two shining nuclei. 



Cups 4-8 lines broad ; stem 2-6 lines long, 2-4 thick. Decaying 

 leaves and other vegetable matter in woods. Lake Pleasant. 

 August. Its relationship is with S. imperialis from which 

 it differs in the character of its spores and in its more highly 

 colored hymenium. 



