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Spathularia flavida, Pers. 
Variety rugosa has the club rugose. It was found in the Adiron- 
dack region growing in a circle about fifteen feet in diameter. All 
the plants in the circle had the club or receptacle rugose. Some of 
the plants were affected by Hypocrea alutacea. ‘The stems were quite 
as velvety as in the form described as Spathularia velutipes, C. & F, 
Spherotheca pannosa, Lev. . 
Variety Ridbis occurs on the stems, fruit and leaves of wild goose- 
berry, Ribes cynosbati. Bergen. June. It forms a dense felty stra- 
tum of mycelium, which is white at first but soon becomes brown, In 
the form on roses the mycelium, so far as I have observed, remains 
white. I have received from Prof. Scribner specimens of the same 
variety which were found on gooseberry in Colorado. 
Hypoxylon Morsei, 2. & C. 
Dead branches of poison sumach, Lhws venenata. Guilderland 
station. May. If H. Blakei be united to this species, which union 
some advocate, then H. Morsei is an inhabitant of alders, willows, 
poplars and sumach. : 
Sordaria coprophila, C. ¢ D. 
In the early and immature condition of this fungus, the perithecia 
are thinly clothed with a minute cinereous flocculent villosity or 
tomentum, and the spores are cylindrical flexuous and colorless and 
very unlike the elliptical colored appendaged spore of the mature state. 
Spheeria taxicola, Px. 
The spores in this are .0008 to .0009 in. long, .00016 to .0002 broad, 
triseptate and colorless. Therefore the species should be referred to 
the genus Metaspheria of the Saccardoian system. 
(E.) 
NEW YORK SPECIES OF PLEUROTUS, CLAUDOPUS AND 
| CREPIDOTUS. 
PLEUROTUS, F”. 
Stem eccentric, lateral or none. Spores white. 
The species of this genus grow chiefly on decaying wood. <A few 
grow on the ground or are attached to mosses. They are very diverse 
in size and general appearance. For instance, there is little resemblance 
between P. ulmarius and P. striatulus, the one a large species with a 
- stout stem and thick fleshy pileus, the other a very small one with 
vo stem anda thin membranous pileus. Yet both)are included by 
the generic description. By reason of the lateral or eccentric stem 
and of the tufted mode of growth of some species, the. pileus is. often 
very irregular and unsymmetrical. Some of the species are also very 
variable in color, and among the small, at first reswpinate forms, the 
young plant is often, in appearance, very unlike the reflexed mature 
