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Hypocrea pallida E. & E. 



On soilie resupinate polyporoid fungus on oak branches. Lake 

 Minnewaska, Ulster co. August. 



Inocybe pallidipes E. & E. 



Dead wood and decaying vegetable matter, near Friends lake, 

 Warren co. July. 



The white stem and brown umbonate pileus are prominent and 

 notable characters of this species. Wood inhabiting- species of this 

 genus are few. This one is related to Inocybe 'euthe- 

 1 o i d e s Pk. but it is a stouter plant with a thicker, straighter 

 stem which is white even in the dried state. 



Lepiota asperula Atk. 

 Woods. Near Ithaca. August. G. F. Atkinson. \^aughns, 

 Washington co. July. S. H. I'urnham. This last is a form having 

 a more slender stem and slightly darker pileus, but scarcely worthy 

 of specific distinction. 



Lepiota ericphora Pk. 

 Jamestown, Chautauqua co. August. G. E. Morris. This is 

 distinguished from the preceding species by its smaller size, darker 

 brown color, denser crowded scales of the pileus and specially by 

 the copious brown tomcntum of both pileus and stem, a character 

 suggestive of the specific name. It has not yet been found in the 

 eastern part of the State. Its range is apparently westward and 

 southward. 



Leptoglossum fumosum Pk. 



G e o g I o s s n m 1 u t e u 111 f u m o s u ni . .State Mus. Rep't 43. 1890. p. 40. 



Receptacle fleshy, stipitate. oblong, obtuse, terete or compressed 

 and furrowed on one or both sides, glabrous, moist, hollow, distinct 

 from the stem and sometimes with one or two decurrent lobes at 

 the base, 3-6 lines long, 1.5-3 lin^^s broad, smoky yellow; stem equal 

 or nearly so, glabrous, hollow, about as long as the receptacle, 

 slightly darker ; asci subclavate or cylindric ; spores oblong, biseriate, 

 often slightly curved, hyaline, 2-4-nucleate, .0012-.0016 of an inch 

 long, .00016-.0002 broad. 



Mossy ground in woods. Sand Lake. August. This was for- 

 merly considered a mere variety of Leptoglossum 1 u t e u m , 

 but having found a group of good specimens showing well the 

 distinctive characters of the species it seems worthy of specific rank. 



