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Pileus 6-14 cm broad; stem 4-5 cm long, 1.5-3 cm thick. 



Among fallen leaves in woods. October. Brooklyn. F. H. 

 Ames. Also near Rockville, Indiana. G. T. Howell. 



The Indiana specimens are taken as the type. The species is 

 related to T r i c h o 1 o m a s a p o n a c e 11 m Fr. but differs from 

 it in the color assumed by wounded places, in its odor and taste 

 and in its spores. 



Tricholoma subsejunctum n. sp. 



The description of this species will be found in the chapter on 

 Edible Fungi in this report. 



Trimmatostroma salicis Cd. 

 Dead branches of willows. Ithaca. November. B. B. Higgins, 



Uromyces spartinae Farl. 

 Leaves of smooth marsh grass, Spartina glabra alterni- 

 flora (Loisel.) Merr. Shelter Island, Suffolk co. October. 

 W. G. Farlow. 



Ustilago hypodytes (Schl.) Fr. 

 On dead stems of quack grass, Agropyron repens (L.) 

 Bv. Lyndonville. June. C. E. Fairman. 



Verbena striata Vent. 

 Pastures. Granville. August. F. T. Pember. Introduced from 

 the western part of the country. 



Vermicularia hysteriiformis n. sp. 



Perithecia elliptic or oblong, .3-.6 mm long, at first covered by 

 the epidermis, then ertimpent, setose, black, the setae continuous, 

 erect or divergent, 50-120 x 4-5 [x, black, tapering upward, pale 

 at the apex ; spores oblong or subf usiform, straight or slightly 

 curved, acute at the ends, continuous, hyaline, 20-25 x 3-4 [i. 



Dead stems of blue cohosh, Caulophyllum thalic- 

 troides (L.) Mx. Troupsburg. May. 



Volutella buxi (Cd.) Berk. 

 Living and languishing stems and leaves of box, B u x u s 

 sempervirens L. East Flampton, Suffolk co. October. Mrs 

 J. H. Poor. 



