REPORT OF THE BOTANIST. 71 
HypNUM CONFLUENS %. sp. 
Pileus thin, tough, expanded or slightly depressed, sometimes 
confluent, zonate, slightly fibrous-tomentose, hygrophanous, dark 
brown when moist, drab brown when dry; spines slender, 1’’-2” 
long, grayish-violet; stem short, surrounded below by a dense 
mycelioid tomentum spores subglobose, .00012 in. in diameter. 
Plant 2’-3' high, pileus 2’-3’ broad. 
Hypnum suLPHUREUM Schw. 
Decaying wood. Buffalo. Clinton. ’ 
HypnuM FERRUGINOSUM /7. 
Half buried sticks and stems of herbs. Center. October. 
SISTOTREMA CONFLUENS 7s. 
Shaded banks. Copake. October. 
In our specimens the pilens is not at all villous, but I am dis- 
posed to regard our plant as nothing more than a smooth variety. 
It is scarcely to be expected that a rigid agreement should always 
be found to exist between our fungoid) plants, modified as they 
often are by local causes, and the brief descriptions too often 
drawn up from dried specimens only or from these and the few 
hasty notes of collectors. The describer, especially of our fleshy 
species, ought also to be the collector and the observer of them in 
their native haunts. 
GRANDINIA cornrARIA Peck. 
Effused, membranaceous-tomentose, separable from the matrix, 
“under side and margin tawny-yellow, upper side and minute 
crowded granules greenish or dingy olivaceous; spores globose, 
rough, .0003 in. in diameter. 
Forming patches 1’-3’ in diameter on old scraps of leather in 
damp places. Greenbush. August. 
It is a very distinct but apparently a very rare species. 
TueLerHora Witxeyi Clinton. 
Pileus infundibuliform, thin, smooth, obscurely zoned, white, 
the margin entire or laciniately toothed and lobed; hymenium 
smooth, concolorous; stem central, equal or slightly tapering 
downwards, solid, white. 
Plant 1’-1.5’ high, pileus 6-12” broad, stem .5’"-1”’ thick. 
Ground in woods. Buffalo. Clinton. Lowville. September. 
Sometimes the pileus is split on one side down to the stem. 
The species is dedieated to Mr. H. Willey, a most active and 
enthusiastic lichenist. 
