REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST 1903 27 



lected in North Elba. ^Ncar .Meauowdale a variety occurs in 

 wliicli tlie petals are variegated with blue and white. This variety 

 has been observed there for several years and appears to be con- 

 stant in its characters. I have also received specimens of it from 

 other places and it seems strange that it has not been designated 

 by name by some of those botanists who have made a special study 



of the violets. 



Viola rotundifolia Mx. 



Fine specimens of the round leaved yellow violet showing the 



branched i)eduncles of the clistogamic flowers were found by the 



roadside 2 miles south of Aiden Lair in July. 



Viola selkirkii Pursh. 



This prett}-, but with us rare, little blue violet has disappeared 



from its former station in a pine grove near West Albany. It was 



found last spring in a grove of arbor vitae trees near Minerva, 



Essex CO. 



Xylaria grandis Pk. 



Van Etten, Chemung co. W. C. Barbour. The specimens on 



which this species was founded were sent me by G. W. Clinton 



in 1872. No other specimens of the species had been seen by me 



till these came from Mr Barbour. They are smaller than the 



typical form and two of the three specimens sent have the clubs 



merely mucronate rather than acuminate. The radicating base 



is wanting in all the specimens, but it appears to have been broken 



off in collecting. The spores are of the same character as those 



of the type specimens and I have no doubt of the specific identity 



of the two fungi. It must be a rare species to escape a second 



discovery for 30 years. 



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EDIBLE FUNGI 



CoUybia acervata Fr. 

 TUFTED COLLYBIA 



PLATE 84, FIG. 8-13 



Pileus slightly fleshy, convex becoming expanded or nearly 

 plane, glabrous, hygrophanous, pale tan color or incarnate red" 

 and sometimes obscurely striatulate on the margin when moist, 

 whitish after the escape of the moisture; lamellae narrow, thin, 



