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TRAMETES ODORATUS &7. 
Old trunks of spruce trees Adirondack Mts. 
MERULIUS PORINOIDES F7. 
Old pine stumps. Forestburgh. Sept. 
MERULIUS BELLUS B. & C. 
Decaying wood. Tonawanda. Clinton. 
IRPEX LACTEUS FAY. 
Dead branches and stumps of frondose trees. Forest- 
burgh. Sept. 
This is thought by some to be a variety. of [rpex sinuosus. 
STEREUM BALSAMEUM 2. Sp. 
Orbicular or confluent, resupinate, rather thick and firm ; 
slightly tawny-tomentose beneath; the margin free, thin, 
whitish ; hymenium brown, uneven, sometimes concentri- 
cally zoned, stained dark red or purplish where bruised, the 
stains at length changing to black. 
Bark of dead balsam trees, Abies balsamea. Adirondack 
Mts. Aug. 
By the confluence of individuals patches several inches in 
diameter are sometimes formed. In the dried specimens the 
hymenium is more or less cracked. 
STEREUM VERSIFORME B. & C. 
Dead branches. Forestburgh. Sept. 
CoRTICIUM CALCEUM AY. 
Decaying wood and dead branches. North Greenbush. 
Oct. 
CoRTICIUM CREMORICOLOR B. & C. 
Spruce wood. Indian Lake. July. The areole in our 
specimens are small but quite distimct. 
CoRTICIUM LILACINOFUSCUM B. & C. 
Old fence posts. Greenbush. 
CYPHELLA CANDIDA 7%. Sp. 
Cups scattered or gregarious, minute, obconic, nearly or 
quite sessile, externally tomentose, soft, white, sometimes 
deflexed. 
Dead stems of ferns, Osmunda cinnamomea. Forest- 
burgh. Sept. 
