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B. unicolor Frost- Lakes, Dartmouth, AHMK. 



B. peckii Frost, var. Iwvipes. Pt. PI. Park, Halifax, 

 AHMK. 



B. exiniius Pk. Point Pleasant Park, Halifax, AHMK. 



B. conicus Eav. Spores 12 x 4 microns, Dartmouth, 

 AHMK. 



B. affinis Pk. Waverley, Halifax county, AHMK. 



B. purpureus Fr. Dartmouth, AHMK. 



B. bovinus L. Lunenburg, MCH. Dartmouth, AHMK. 



Polyporus (fomes) ribis Fr. On the bases of old red cur- 

 rant bushes, Dartmouth, AHMK. 



P. Jiispidoides Pk. On dead trunks of Pivea. New Glas- 

 gow, WPF. 



P. scliweinitsn Fr. Dartmouth, AMHK. Lunenburg, 

 MCH. (Phceolus sistotremoides Murrill.) 



Hydnum cyathiforme Schseff. Common near Pictou town, 

 in thickets of spruce and fir, CLM. 



H. scabrosum Fr. Lunenburg, MCH. 



H. graveolens subzonatum Pk. Middleton, KRG. 



Plnosodon fennicits (Karst.) Hennings. On the ground 

 under conifers. Merigomish, WPF. 



Tremellodon gelatinosum Pers. A few specimens were 

 found on decaying firs or spruce lying on mossy ground in the 

 woods above Hartley's Waterfall, Pirate's Cove near Mulgrave, 

 Strait of Canso, Nova Scotia, o'a the 29th Sept., 1904. Dr. 

 G. U. Hay and AHMK. 



The following descriptive note was made on the largest 

 specimen about 36 hours after collection, when it must have 

 shrunken considerable. Pileus white, opal-like, spatulate, 

 spines white, 500 by 600 microns long, 250 to 300 microns broad 

 at the base, from whiich they taper to the points which are dis- 

 tinctly recurved towards the stipe. Length of specimen 15mm, 

 breadth of the' fan-shaped frond 7 mm, and of the stipe 4 mm. 

 Spores 6 to 7 microns in diameter. The whole was shrinking 



