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brown and subcampanulate or convex with age, striate, glabrous, 

 odor strong, flavor disagreeable, properties poisonous; lamellae 

 subdistant, rather narrow, adnate, white or whitish ; stem long 

 or short, straight or flexuous, hollow, glabrous, bright lemon 

 yellow; spores broadly ellipsoid or subglobose, 6-8 x 4-6 fi. 



Pileus 10-20 mm broad ; stem 5-30 cm long, 1-2 mm thick. 



Decaying pine leaves. Richmond co. November. W. H. 

 Ballou. 



This is a dangerous or poisonous species. A single plant chewed 

 and possibly a little of it swallowed caused sickness for some time. 



Pileus tenuis, submembraneus, primum ovalis superiore brun- 

 neus, inf eriore luteus, demum griseo-viridis, straitus, con- 

 vexus subcampanulatusve, glaber, graveolens, flavor ingratus, 

 venenus ; lamellae subdistantes, angustae adnatae, albae albi- 

 daeve ; stipes longus brevisve, rectus flexuosuve, cavus, glaber, 

 luteus ; sporae late ellipsoideae vel subglobosae, 6-8 x 4-6 /*. 



Opegrapha herpetica Ach. 

 On basswood, Tilia americana L. Orient Point. June. 

 R. Latham. "Determined by G. K. Merrill w^ho says of it, " the 

 first American specimen T have seen." 



Penicillium hypomycetes Sacc. 



On the inner bark of an unknown tree. Albany. March. D. B. 

 Young. 



Pestalozzia truncata Lev. 



On cone scales of Norway spruce, Picea excelsa Link. 

 Albany. April. S. H. Burnham. The name of this species is sug- 

 gested by the fact that in old spores the terminal hyaline cells fall 

 away leaving the colored central part with truncate ends. 



Phiaiea anomala n. sp. 



Receptacle thin, broadly cupulate or disciform, 1.5-3 ^^ broad, 

 externally clothed with small, tawny, radiating fibrils, the margin 

 incurved, entire; stem slender, firm, flexuous, .5-1.5 cm long, tawny, 

 fibrillose, tomentose, fulvous; hymenium greenish black; asci 

 cylindric or subclavate, eight-spored, spores ellipsoid or somewhat 

 narrowed toward the base, continuous, hyaline, 10-12 x 4-5 /*, para- 

 physes filiform. 



On dead herbaceous stems or twigs in wet places. Remsen, 

 Oneida co. August. 



