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AGARICUS CAMPESTRIS V. VILLATICUS Brond. 
This large and well marked variety was found as early as June 
in rich soil near Albany. 
Lactarius uvipus /7. 
This plant usually grows in swamps, but fine specimens were 
found growing on dry soil under pine trees at Center. 
Russuta Marre Pk. 
Near Albany. The spores are yellow. 
Potyporus ELEGANS /7. 
Specimens were found in the Adirondack woods with the stem 
entirely black, and in some instances with a black spot on the 
pileus opposite the insertion of the stem. 
Urepo Pyro.e Grev. 
There are three distinct varieties of this species. The first, 
which is the most common, is without spot, the sori are numerous, 
equal, rotund and occupy the whole under surface of leaves of 
Pyrola rotundifolia ; the second has a brownish spot and the 
small rotund sori are distantly scattered over the under surface of 
leaves of P. secunda; the third has the sori large, irregular 
and confluent, long covered by the epidermis and occupying the 
lower surface of leaves of P. secunda. It sometimes succeeds the 
second variety on the same leaf. 
AXcip1um Hovstonratum Schw. 
Slope of Mt. Marcy on Houstonia cerulea. 
ALcIpDIUM TENUE Schw. 
Sandlake in September. It usually occurs in July. In the 
present instance the plants on which the A¢cidium was found had 
been eaten at the top by cattle. New branches had grown out 
beneath the injured part and on the leaves of these the parasite 
occurred. The inference is, that the age of the leaf has some 
influence in determining the time of the appearance of the parasite. 
PrvgoLariA BREVIPEs B. & PR. 
The spores are vertically flattened when dry, but under the 
influence of moisture they soon become globose. The specific 
name seems quite inappropriate unless it be a comparative one, for 
the peduncles are several times longer than the spores. 
ToruLa poputina Pk. 
This is not a good Torula and must be referred to the genus 
Myxormia. 
