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lamellae plane or slightly arcuate in mass, narrow, close, rounded 

 behind, adnexed, white or whitish, becoming dingy or tinged with 

 reddish brown when old; steni short, nearly equal, solid or stuffed, 

 slightly pruinose at the top, more or less white tomentose at the base, 

 colored like the pileus; spores oblong or subfusiform, 10-12 x 



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Pileus 5-10 cm broad; stem 2.5-5 cm long, 1.5-2 cm thick. Gre- 

 garious. Woods, Vaughns. September. S. H. Burnham. 



Pileus carneus, firmus, flexuosus, late convexus vel subplanus, 

 humidus, glaber, albus albidusve, carne albus, sapor ungratus ; lamel- 

 lae planae vel leviter arcuatae; confertae, angustae, adnexae, albae 

 albidaeve, in senectute sordidae; stipes brevis, subaequalis, solidus 

 vel farctus, ad apicem subpruinosus, basi albotomentosus, pileo 

 similis coloratus; sporae oblongae vel subfusiformes, 10-12 x 



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Tricholoma piperatum Pk. 



Orient Point. November. R. Latham. 



Tricholoma subpulverulentum (Pers.) Fr. 

 Near Rochester. October. W. E. Abbs. Only two specimens 

 were received. The species has been regarded as edible, but it was 

 not possible to obtain enough fairly to try its edible quality. 



Urophlyctis major .Schroet. 

 Living or languishing leaves of water plantain, A li s m a 

 plantago-aquatica L. Ithaca flats. July. B. B. Higgins. 

 Communicated by G. F. Atkinson. 



Vermicularia hysteriiformis n. sp. 



Perithecia thin, oval or oblong, .4-8 mm long, shining, black, 

 covered by the epidermis and at length adorned with numerous 

 subulate divergent black or brown setae ; spores narrowly fusiform, 

 acute at each end, slightly curved, hyaline, 20-30 x 3-4 fi. 



Dead stems of blue cohosh, Caulophyllum thalic- 

 troides (L.) Mx. Troupsburg, Steuben co. May. 



A species very distinct from all others by the shape of the peri- 

 thecia which appear longer than broad through the epidermis, re- 

 sembling in this respect some species of Hysterium. 



Perithecia tenua, ovalia oblongave, .4-.8 mm longa, nitida, atra, 

 primum epidermide tecta, demum setis numeris subulatis, divergen- 



