REPORT OF THE BOTANTST. 83 
Sorenra ocuracea L/offm. 
Rotten wood. Savannah, Wayne county. October. 
CLAVARIA RUFESCENS Scheff. 
Ground in woods. Sandlake. M. Peck. Greenbush. August. 
This plant occurs after heavy rains. It sometimes grows in 
continuous rows several feet in extent. The pinkish-red tips of 
the branches fade with age. The axils are rounded and the plant 
is quite fragile. Fries considers it a variety of C. aurea. 
CLAVARIA PusILLA Pech. 
Stem slender, solid, rather tough, much and irregularly branched ; 
branches unequal, divergent; tips acute. 
Plant scarcely 1’ high, yellowish. 
Ground under spruce and balsam trees. North Elba. Sep- 
tember. 
This plant is distinguished from C. tetragona by its terete stems 
and irregular ramification. 
Cravarta cLavaTa Peck. 
Simple, straight, clavate, obtuse, smooth, not hollow, yel- 
low when fresh, rugose-wrinkled and orange-colored when dry, 
4"—6* high. 
Damp shaded banks by road-sides. Sandlake. June. (Plate 
1, fig. 9.) The surface of the ground where it grows is covered 
by a green confervoid stratum. 
“TREMELLA ALBIDA /7Zuds. 
Dead birch trees. Sandlake. October. 
TREMELLA coLorATA ech, 
Plant gregarious, swollen, subglobose or irregular, soft, pulpy, 
raisin-colored when moist, externally black and internally brownish- 
pink when dry; filaments colored in the mass; spores globose, 
colored like the hymenium when mature, .0005’ to .0007' in 
diameter. 
Bark of dead ash trees. Tyre. September. 
The plants are generally about one-fourth of an inch thick and 
high. They burst through the epidermis and stain the surface of 
the bark a dull reddish color, but within it is stained black. The 
species may be readily known by the globose colored spores. 
SteMonitis TrpHoipes DC. 
Rotten stumps. Greenbush. June. 
