REl'ORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST I906 I9 



Aster violaris Bu. 

 Rathboneville, Steuben co. August. This species is distin- 

 guished by its suborbicular and renifonn apiculate radical and 

 lower stem leaves. It belongs to the group Macrophylli. 



Boletus subpunctipes n. sj). 



Pileus lleshy, broadly convex, often uneven on the surface, be- 

 coming soft with age, brown, reddish brown when dry. flesh white, 

 slowly becoming dingy where cut or broken, taste mild ; tubes 

 nearly ])lane in the mass, adnate or but slightly depressed around 

 the stem, the mouths small, round, whitish or grayish white, chang- 

 ing to reddish brown where wounded ; stem equal or nearly so, 

 solid, slightly reticulate at the to]). very minutely dotted, some- 

 times obscurely squamulose at the top. grayish or pallid ; spores 

 rusty brown or cinnamon brown, oblong or subfusiform, .0004- 

 .0005 of an inch long. .0002-.00024 broad. 



Pileus 2-4 inches broad ; stem 2-3 inches long. 4-(') lines thick. 

 Shaded sandy soil. JMenands, Albany co. August. 



The surface of the pileus is rendered uneven by coarse shallow 

 depressions. The species belongs to the section Vcrsipelles. The 

 dots on the stem are nearly like those on the stem of Boletus 

 c h r o m a p e s Frost. 



Caryospora cariosa Fairm. 



In cavities of old i)eech wood. Lyndonville, Orleans co. C. E. 

 Fair man. 



Collybia campanella n. sp. 



Pileus thin, conic or campanulate with a papilla at the apex, 

 covered with coarse appressed or deflcxed strigose hairs, dark 

 tawnv ; lamellae ascending, moderately close, whitish ; stem firm, 

 equal, inserted, floccose hairy, colored like the pileus; six)res not 

 seen. 



Pileus 3-4 lines broad; stem <>-i2 lines long, .5 of a line thick. 

 Dead and dry branches of arbor vitae, Thuja o c c i d e n t a 1 i s . 

 Horicon, Warren co. July. 



This species is related to Collybia s t i p i t a r i a from 

 which it is readilv distinguished by its persistently conic or cam- 

 panulate pileus and its uniformly dark tawny color of both pileus 

 and stem. The hairy tufts of the stem are pointed and project at 

 right an2"les from the stem. 



