1896.] KAIRMAM PUFF BALLS, SLIME MOULDS, ETC. 207 



Some of the species are new to the State of New York, and one, 

 viz. : Tapesia Rhois, is considered new to science. In the enumera- 

 tion of the Gasteromyceteae and Discomyceteae the arrangement of 

 Saccardo in the " Sylloge Fungorum " has been followed. A manual 

 of the North American Discomyceteae is sadly needed. Many of the 

 species now recognized need careful revision and elimination. Cooke's 

 list was published in 1875 and is not up to date. (Cooke, " Synopsis 

 of the Discomycetous Fungi of the United States," Bull. Buffalo Soc. 

 Nat. Sc.) 



Delay in the printing of this paper has given me opportunity to 

 revise the Myxomyceteae in accordance with the "North American 

 Slime-Moulds" of Prof. T. H. Macbride (Macmillan, 1899.) 



GASTEROMYCETE^. 



Family i. PHALLOIDEiC. 



Sect. I. PHALLEiE. 



A. PHALLEiE MITRAT^E 



Ithyphallus Fries. 



127. Ithyphallus impudicus (L. ) Fries. Peck, 28th Rep., 

 page 85. Stink-horn, so-called from its very offensive odor. Figured 

 in Wood's " Reference Handbook of the Medical Sciences," vol. 3, 

 page 273, and Zopf, Die Pilze, page 381. Flats along Johnson's 

 Creek, Yates, Oct. 1888. 



B. PHALLEiE CAPITATE. 



MUTINUS F>. 



128. Mutinus caninus (Huds. ) Fr. The superior part of 

 the stipe is of a beautiful peach-blossom color. Near barns, Lyn- 

 donville. Uncommon. 



Family 2. NIDULARIACE^^. 



*Peridium lacerate at the apex (not operculate). 



NiDULARIA F'r. 



129. Nidularia pulvinata (Schwein. ) Fr. Peck, 30th Rep., 

 page 51. Chestnut or bay-colored Nidularia. On wood in wood piles, 

 Lyndonville, August, 1886. Peck found it in October on old fence 

 boards. (Zopf in Die Pilze, page 378, gives the genus habitat as 

 " alte Baumstiimpfe und Holzer " ). Rare. Both Prof. Peck and 

 Mr. Ellis assure me that this fungus is uncommon in this country. 



