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Thelephora Willeyi, Clinton. 



Pileus funnel-formed, tliin, smooth, obscurely zoned, white, the margin 

 entire or laciniately toothed and lobed ; hymenium smooth, concolorous ; stem 

 central, equal, solid, white. 



Plant l'-1.5' high, pileus 6"-12'' broad, stem .5 "-1" thick. 



Ground in woods. Buffalo, G. W. Clinton. Lowville. September. 

 Sometimes the pileus is split on one side down to the stem. 



Stereum radiatum, Peck. 



Resupinate or slightly reflexed, suborbicular, blackish-brown; hymenium 

 uneven, marked with thick corrugations or ridges radiating from the center, 

 cinnamon color. 



Old hemlock logs. Catskill Mountains. June. 



Corticinm bicolor, Peck. 



Thin, membranaceous, resupinate, flaccid, smooth, separable from the matrix, 

 under surface greenish-yellow, upper surface white. 



Eotten wood. Center. October. 



Clavaria pusilla^ Peck. 



Stem slender, solid, rather tough, much and irregularly branched ; branches 

 unequal, divergent, tips acute. 

 Plant scarcely 1 ' high, yellowish. 



Ground under spruce and balsam tree^. North Elba. Septem- 

 ber. 



Clavaria clavata, Peck. 



Simple, straight, clavate, obtuse, smooth, not hollow, yellow when fresh, 

 rugose-wrinkled and orange colored when dry. 

 Plant 4"-6" high. 



Damp shaded banks by roadsides. Sandlake. June. 

 The surface of the ground where it grows is covered by a stratum 

 of green confervoid filaments. The species is related to C. mucida. 



Treinella colorata, Peck. 



Plant gregarious, swollen subglobose or irregular soft pulpy and raisin- 

 colored when moist, externally black and internally brownish-piuk when dry ; 

 filaments colored in the mass ; spores globose, colored like the hymenium 

 when mature, .0005'-.0007' in diameter. 



Bark of dead ash trees. Tyre. September. 



