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brownish-green in color and have two or three faint veins each side of 
the midrib. These are connected by transverse veinlets. The stems 
were not at all branched but in some instances they had sent out runners 
from the base and had thus given rise tonew plants. Neither petiolate 
nor floating leaves were seen. ‘The dry fruit has a deep impression or 
pit on each side. This is Potamogeton obrutus, Wood. 
Eleocharis quadrangulata, R. Br. ‘* Paddy lake,” South Scriba, 
Oswego county. Wibbe. This isa rare plant. In the Manual the 
outlet of Oneida lake is given as a station for it and in the Beck 
Herbarium a specimen is labeled N. Salem pond, Westchester county. 
Carex adusta, Boott. Rocky woods, Stissing mountain, Dutchess 
county. June. In some of the specimens all the spikes were sterile. 
Carex glaucodea, Tuckm. Stissing mountain. June. 
Carex Sullivantii, Boott. Yonkers. #. C. Howe. Dr. Howe in- 
forms me that he regards this plant as a hybrid between C. pubescens 
and C. arctata. 
Polypogon Monspeliensis, Desf. Yonkers. Howe. 
Triticum violaceum, Hornem. Rocky places and mountain preci-. 
pices. Stissing mountain and Adirondack mountains. Juneand July 
I have seen no specimens with purplish or violet-tinged spikes. The 
lower sheaths are sometimes slightly hairy or downy. The awns ray 
in length and when long they sometimes curve outward. 
Nitella Jopaca, Ag. Edmonds ponds. July. The Specimens are 
referred to this species because of their dicecious character. Their 
general appearance is remarkably like that of NV. flexilis. But few 
fertile plants were seen. 
Nitella intermedia, Nordst. Sandy shore of Lake Sanford, Adiron- 
dack mountains. Aug. The specimens are small but apparently 
belong to this species. 
Agaricus spectabilis, Hr. Long Island. J. D. Trask. 
Agaricus (Hypholoma) ornellus, 7. sp. Pileus convex or nearly 
plane, slightly squamose, reddish- brown tinged with purple, the margin 
paler, floccose-appendiculate ; lamellae moderately close, yellowish or 
pallid, becoming brown; stem equal or slightly thickuned upward, 
solid, squamulose, pale-yellow, sometimes expanded at the base into a 
brownish disk margined with yellowish filaments; spores brown, 
elliptical, .00025 in. to .0003 in. long, .00016 in. to .0002. in, broad. 
Plant 1 in. to 2 in. high, pileus about 1 in. broad, stem I line to 1.5 
linesthick. Decaying wood. South Ballston, Saratoga county. Oct. 
The scales of the pileus are sometimes arranged in concentric circles. 
The purplish tint is not always uniform but in some instances forms 
spots or patches. 
Hygrophorus limacinus, /r. Thin woods and open places. North 
Greenbush. Oct. 
-Polyporus croceus, /r. Decaying oak wood, Catskill mountains. 
Aug. 
Polyporus undosus, 7. sp. Effuso-reflexed, carnose-fibrous, soft but 
rather tough; pileus thin, undulate, narrow, rugose-tomentose, ob- 
scurely sulcate-zonate, whitish or alutaceous ; pores long, medium size, 
unequal, angular, white, the dissepiments ‘shin, dentate, in oblique 
situations elongate, lacerate ; mycelium white. Decaying trunks of 
