18 Report of the State Botanist. 



is so constant in its characters and so easily separated from all 

 forms of C. laxiflora^ by its broad bracts and short inconspicuous 

 staminate spike that I can readily adinit its claims to specific * 

 rank. We have it from the Helderberg mountains and from 

 Sanfords Corners, Jefferson county. June. 



Panicum miliaceum L. 

 Port Jervis and Alban}^ July. This millet has been intro- 

 duced and is frequently found growing in waste places about 

 cities and villages. Prof. Dudley reports it at Ithaca, and Dr. 

 Howe at Lansingburgh and in various places in the valley of the 

 lower Hudson. 



Psathyrella tenera ?/. sjy. 



Pileus thin, campanulate, obtuse, moist or subhygrophanous 

 reddish-cinereous when moist, paler when dry, slightly rugulose 

 and atomate ; lamellae broad, adnate, plane or but slightly 

 ascending, subdistant, at first pallid or subcinereous, then umber 

 and finally blackish, white on the edge ; stem slender, glabrous, 

 stuffed or hollow, white, with a white floccose mycelium at the 

 base ; spores narrowly elliptical, .0005 to .00055 in. long, .0003 

 broad. 



Pileus 3 to 5 lines broad ; stem 1 to 1.5 in. long, scarcely half 

 a line thick. 



Damp mucky ground in open woods. Pierrepont Manor, Jef- 

 ferson county. June. 



This plant resembles small forms of Galera tenera in color and 

 shape, but it is readily distinguished from that species by the 

 darker color of the mature lamellae and of the spores. The 

 plant is much smaller than P. gracilis and P. graciloides to 

 which it seems to be related. 



Hydnum subcarnaceum Fr. 

 Decayed wood. Ithaca. Prof. W. R. Dudley. 



Merulius irpicinns n. sp. 



Resupinate, thin, soft, more or less tomentose beneath, whit- 

 ish, the margin sometimes free or slightly reflexed ; hymenium 

 at first gyrose porose, the dissepiments at length prolonged into 

 subulate or irpex-like teeth, subferruginous ; spores subglobose or 

 elliptical, colored, .0002 to .00028 in. long, .OOOlb to .0002 broad. 



Decaying wood. Ithaca. October. Dudley. 



