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XEW OR INTERESTING SPECIES OF FUNGI V 



Aleuria rhenana Fuckel 



(Symb. Myc. 325. 1869) 



An interesting cup fungus not previously reported from New 



York. On ground in coniferous woods, Pittsford, Monroe county. 



F. S. Boughton, September 30, 191 2. Determined by Dr F. J. 



Seaver. Doctor Seaver describes and illustrates this species in 



Mycologia, 6: 275, pi. CXLII, November 1914, and it is also 



pictured by Cooke (Mycographia, pi. 112, fig. 400) under the name 



Peziza splendens Quel. 



Armillaria ventricosa Peck 



(Figure 3) 



Originally described by Peck as Lentinus ventricosa, 

 but later transferred by him and redescribed as a species of Armil- 

 laria from specimens received from Dr L. M. Underwood, collected 

 in Alabama. It was collected in Nova Scotia in 1909 by A. H. 

 Mackay, and recently at Asheville, North Carolina, by Prof. H. C. 

 Beardslee, so that its known range now extends from Nova Scotia 

 to Alabama, but has not been reported from New York. The type 

 of Lentinus ventricosa was collected at Tacoma Park, 

 D. C, by T. A. Williams, November 1896. 



I am indebted to Prof. H. C. Beardslee for the excellent photo- 

 graph of fresh specimens which is reproduced here in order to 

 illustrate one of the rarest of American Agarics and one which 

 should be looked for in New York. 



Bombardia bombarda (Batsch) 



Sphaeria bombarda Batsch, Elench. Cont. I. fig. 181. 1786. 

 Bombardia fasciculata Fr. Summ. Veg. Scand. 3S9. 1849. 

 Bertia bombarda Ces. & DeXot. Schema Sf. It. in Comm. i : 225. 



On decorticated wood of Fagus, northern Herkimer county. 

 H. D. House, July 1917. On decorticated wood of Fagus. Croghan 

 and Worcester, C. H. Peck. On decayed wood, Portville and Hel- 

 derberg mountains, C. H. Peck. 



Catinula turgida Desm. 

 On dead limbs of Corylus rostrata. West Fort Ann, 

 Washington county. S. H. Burnham, no. 119. June 4, 1916 (Det. 

 Dearness). 



