42 Refort of the State Botanist. 



Bromus purgans L. 



This was considered a distinct species by Linnaeus and stands 

 as such in the N. Y. Flora. But modern botanists have gener- 

 ally connected it with B. ciliatus as a variety. I could wish it 

 might be restored to its original* position, for as far as my obser- 

 vation goes it is easily distinguished from B. ciliatus by its 

 smaller, diflFerently colored, le«s drooping panicle, its fewer spike- 

 lets, its more hairy flowers and its different habitat. It likes 

 shade and most often grows in rocky woods. I have not 

 observed it in the Adirondack region where B. ciliatus is quite 

 common. 



Danthonia spicata J?w. 



The panicle in this grass is contracted after flowering. It 

 varies in length from less than am inch to two and a half inches. 

 Two forms occur. In one the leaves and sheaths are glabrous 

 except a tuft of hairs at the throat of the sheaths. In the other 

 the leaves and lower sheaths are clothed with long soft hairs. 

 To distinguish this form I designate it Yar. villosa. Specimens of 

 it were collected at Brownville and Taberg. 



Coprinus micaceus Fr. var. granularis «. var. 

 Pileus sprinkled with whitish granules or furfuraceous scales. 

 Fulton chain, Hamilton county. August. 



Polyporus versicolor Fr. var. carneiporus n. var. 

 Pores dull flesh-color. Ithaca. Dudley. 



Dsedalea unicolor Fr. var. fumosa n. var. 

 Pores smoky-brown. Dead birch, Betula lutea. Ithaca. 

 October. Dudley. 



Solenia anomala Pers. var. orbicularis n. var. 

 Receptacles collected in orbicular groups and seated on a con- 

 spicuous, dense, persistent, tomentose, tawny subiculum. Dead 

 branches of appletree. Alcove. March. Shear. 



Tuberctilaria carpogena Pk. 

 This name is preoccupied and I substitute for it Tubercularia 

 decolorans. 



