106 TWENTY-SEVENTH REPORT ON THE STATE MUSEUM. 
MOoNILIA CANDIDA 2. Sp. 
Flocci scattered, erect, simple, septate, pellucid ; heads 
of spores rather compact, subglobose, erect, white ; spores 
subglobose, .00025’— .0003’ in diameter. 
Decaying fungi. Forestburgh. Sept. 
PILOBOLUS CRYSTALLINUS Tode. 
Horse dung. Bethlehem. September. 
The spores in our specimens are about .0005’ in diameter. 
CHZTOMIUM MELIOLOIDES C. & P. 
Scattered, minute; conceptacles brown, globose, spring- 
ing from a septate branched mycelium, hairs dark-brown, 
rather rigid, two to three times dichotomously branched 
above, branches divaricately spreading; spores ovate or 
subglobose, pale-brown, .00018’ in diameter. 
Old stems of Indian corn. North Greenbush. October. 
Similar to C.fwnicolum, but with the hairs more branched, 
the branches more spreading, and the spores equal in size. 
Externally it resembles a Meliola. 
HELVELLA SPHHROSPORA 7. SD. 
Pileus large, irregular, ochraceous, the margin free, some- 
what veiny and minutely tomentose beneath ; stem stout, 
deeply lacunose, smooth or with a minute appressed tomen- 
tum, white ; asci cylindrical ; spores globose, .00035’— .0004’ 
in diameter. 
Plant 3’-4’ high, piieus 3’—4’ broad, stem 1’— 2’ thick. 
Old stumps in woods. Indian Lake. July. 
In the dried specimens the pileus becomes darker, so that 
the colors resemble those of H. esculenta, but the true rela- 
tionship is with HZ. costata. The globose spores are peculiar 
and suggest the specific name. 
MITRULA CUCULLATA F7. 
Fallen leaves of spruce trees. Forestburgh. September. 
This rare and interesting little plant has been placed by 
various authors in the genera Helvella, Leotia, Heyderia, 
Geoglossum and Mitrula. The head is either ovate or coni- 
cal, and in large specimens is slightly wrinkled or uneven. 
It is whitish, pale-yellow or cream colored when fresh, but 
changes to a subferruginous or cinnamon hue in the dried 
specimens. 
