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NEW SPECIES OF EXTRALIMITAL FUNGI 

 Asteromella asteris 



Perithecia superficial, epiphyllous, densely cespitose, seated on an 

 obscure thin brown crust, globose, about .25 mm broad, black, the 

 tufts about I mm broad ; spores minute, oblong or subcylindric, con- 

 tinuous, hyaline, 6-8 x 2-2.5 /x, sporophores minute or obsolete. 



Upper surface of living or languishing leaves of the panicled aster, 

 Aster paniculatus Lam. Louisville, Kan. October. 

 E. Bartholomew. 



Perithecia superficialia, epiphylla, dense aggregata, crusta tenue 

 obscura brunnea insidentia, globosa, atra, caespites i mm lati ; sporae 

 minutae, oblongae vel subcylindraceae, continuae, hyalinae, 6^8 x 

 2-2.5 /n, sporophores minuti vel obsoleti. 



Boletinus solidipes 



Pileus fleshy, convex becoming broadly convex or nearly plane, 

 squamose with radiately arranged closely appressed brown or pur- 

 plish brown hairs, sometimes purplish brown or yellowish brown in 

 the center, flesh whitish; tubes small, angular, radiately arranged, 

 grayish becoming brown, adnate or decurrent; stem equal, solid, 

 slightly annulate, yellowish below the annulus, grayish above, often 

 stained with darker spots or marks, white or yellowish within, veil 

 grayish, adhering partly to the margin of the pileus, partly to the 

 stem; spore print ochraceous, spores 8-10 x 4-5 fi. 



Pileus 5 to 10 cm broad; stem 5-8 cm long, 8-10 mm thick. 

 Friendship, Me. August. G. E. Morris. 



This species resembles in some respects Boletinus cavipes 

 Opat. but it is somewhat darker in color and differs specially in its 

 solid stem. 



Pileus carnosus, convexus, demum late convexus vel subplanus, 

 pilis purpureo-brunneus radiantibus appressis squamosus, interdum 

 in centro lutescente brunneus, carne albido ; tubuli parvi, angulares, 

 radiantes, adnati vel decurrentes, grisei, deinde brunnei ; stipes 

 aequalis, solidus, leviter annulatus, infra annulum luteolus, supra 

 annulum griseus, saepe maculis brunneis inquinatus, intra albidus, 

 velo griseo, margini partim pilei et partim stipiti adherente ; sporae 

 subochraceae, oblongae, 8-10 x 4-5 fi. 



