REPORT OF THE BOTANIST. 75 
. Drpymium FARINACEUM /?. 
Fallen pine leaves. Center. October. Also on mosses. North 
Elba. August. 
PHYsARUM PULCHERRIPES Peck. 
Peridium globose, variable in color, ochraceous, gray, brown or 
black ; stem slender, equal or slightly tapering upward, vermilion ; 
spores globose, brown, .00083 in. in diameter. 
Rotten wood. Richmondville and Worcester. July. 
The bright color of the stem is quite conspicuous notwithstand- 
ing the small size of the plant. 
Puysarum caspitosum Peck. 
Peridia aggregated in tufts or clusters, crowded, sessile, smooth, 
brown or blackish-brown; spores dingy ochre, smooth, globose, 
.00025 in. in diameter. 
Rotten wood. Greenbush. August. 
ANGIoRIDIUM sINUOsUM (rev. 
Dead stems of herbs and grass. Center. October. 
CRATERIUM LEUCOCEPHALUM Ditm. 
Fallen leaves. Croghan and North Elba. August and Sep- 
tember. 
Cratertum opovatum Peck. : 
Peridium obovate, rugose-wrinkled, glabrous, lilac-brown ; flocei 
whitish ; stem colored like the peridium ; spores smooth, globose, 
black, .0005-.0006 in. in diameter. 
Rotten wood bark and fallen leaves. Center, Sandlake and 
Croghan. August and September. 
The peridium varies in shape from subglobose to oblong pyri- 
form, but the prevailing form is obovate. The operculum is not 
distinctly shown, the peridium often appearing to be irregularly 
ruptured at the apex, so that possibly the species may have to be 
referred to Physarum. 
Sremonitis HERBATICA Peck. 
Densely fasciculate; capillitium slender, cylindrical, brown 
when moist, ferruginous-brown when dry; stem black, arising 
from a‘membranaceous hypothallus, penetrating to the apex of the 
capillitium ; spores globose, .0003-.000385 in. in diameter. 
Plant 2’’-8” high, growing on living leaves of grass and herbs. 
Albany. June. 
