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Plant 2' high, pileus 2’ broad, stem 2"~4" thick. 
Grassy ground in open woods. Greenbush. August. 
Boiervus castanevus Pull. 
Grassy ground in open woods. Greenbush. June. 
The spores in this plant are yellow, not white as indicated in 
Fries’ Epicrisis. 
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Potyporvs REsINOosus /?. 
Prostrate trunks of hemlock trees, Abcées Canadensis. Sandlake 
and Portville. August and September. 
Potyporvs picrprs /7, 
A single specimen of this species was found on a fallen branch 
at Center. 
Merv.ius LAcRYMANS JY. 
Decaying wood in close, damp places. Greenbush. October. 
On a flower-pot in a green-house. Buffalo. Clinton. 
Hypnoum srricosum Swartz. 
Prostrate trunk of an ash tree. Portville. September. 
CRATERELLUs caspitosus Peck. 
Pileus fleshy, tough, irregular, expanded, centrally depressed or 
subinfundibuliform, smooth, moist, variable in color, greenish- 
yellow, pinkish-brown, blackish, the margin usually decurved and 
somewhat lobed ; hymenium at first smooth, then rugose-wrinkled, 
the folds decurrent on the short solid tough stem which is either 
central or eccentric; spores oblong, obtuse, sometimes slightly 
curved, .00035’ to .00045' long. 
Plant ceespitose, 6’-12" high, pileus 6’—-10" ‘broad. 
Rotten logs in a wooded swamp. Portville. September. 
This is a singular and somewhat aberrant species. The color is 
variously modified by blue, green, yellow, olivaceous and viola- 
ceous' tints. The pilei sometimes grow together, forming an 
intricate, irregular tuft. 
THELEPHORA ANTHOCEPHALA J. 
Ground in open woods. Greenbush. August. 
THELEPHORA PEDICELLATA Schw. 
Living branches of alder trees. Indian Lake. October. 
