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Decaying wood of deciduous trees. Carlisle, Schoharie County. June. 
The affinities of this species are doubtful. It is provisionally referred to 
the genus Tremella, although the central portion of the substance is fleshy 
rather than gelatinous. The external portion, however, is gelatinous and the 
plants revive upon the application of moisture, and are then somewhat tremel- 
loid, though not very tenacious. Usually two or more are clustered together 
and form beautiful little rosettes. 
DACRYMYCES CONGLOBATUS 7. sp. (Plate I, figs. 1-4.) 
Scattered, sessile, even, pezizoid, about one line broad, with the thin mar- 
gin incurved, pink-red, paler within, dark-red when dry, with the margin 
plicate-lobed ; threads slender, branched, minutely rough; spores collected in 
subglobose tufts at the tips of the branches, oblong, obtuse, curved, sometimes 
nucleate, .0005’—.0004' long. 
Bark of arbor-vitee, Thuja occidentalis. Adirondack Mountains. July. 
Our plant does not well agree with the generic character of the Dacrymyces 
in its fruit, but its external appearance is so similar to other species of the 
genus that it seems best for the present to place it here. The specific name 
has reference to the arrangement of the spores. 
MELANOGASTER VARIEGATUS Twi. 
Ground in shaded roads in woods. Sandlake. Aug. 
RHIZOPOGON RUBESCENS 77/. 
Sandy soil. Center. Sept. 
CYNOPHALLUS CANINUS F’7. 
Ground about an old stump. Oneida. H. A. Warne. 
This species is described as odorless, yet according to Mr. Warne these 
specimens had a very disagreeable odor. 
PuHatuvus Ravenevi B. & C. 
Ground in woods. Thurman. Oct. 
The description of this species is very imperfect. The specimens were 
identified by comparison with Mr. Ravenel’s notes which he kindly submitted 
to my inspection. ‘The stem is four or five inches long, the denuded pileus is 
porous, the pores or cavities of the under or inner surface being larger than 
the others and giving a somewhat reticulate-pitted or cellular appearance, and 
there is a short veil at the top of the stem, but concealed beneath the pileus. 
The following synoptical tables will exhibit the prominent distinctive 
features of the species of Phallus of this State and the United States, so far 
as I am able to get them from the published descriptions and the specimens 
at my command : 
New York Species of Phallus. 
Denuded pileus reticulate with coarse deep pits or cells. 
Veil exposed, reticulate with small perforations........ P. Demonum Rumph. 
“TELL TUDE SE AS Si A Spain ere Oe dR P. impudicus ZL. 
Denuded pileus porous, veil not perforate, concealed ....... P. Ravenelii B. & C. 
