24 Annual Report of the State Botanist. 



little paler than the hymenium, sometimes extending in brancing 

 string-like fibers; metuloids sparse, subcylindrical, obtuse, rough, 

 .0016 in. long, .0003 broad. 



Decaying wood. Syracuse. September. Underwood. 



The specimens are imperfect, being destitute of spores, but the 

 species is apparently quite distinct by the characters given. 



Clavaria similis, n. sp. 



Csespitose, subtenacious, slender, three to four times dichotomously 

 branched, pallid, the ultimate ramuli short, obtase, the axils rounded; 

 si^ores subglobose, .00025 in. in diameter, mycelium white. 



Plant 1 to 2 in. high. Woods. Plattsburgh. August. 



This scarcely differs from Clavaria muscoides, except in its paler 

 color and in the obtuse tips^of the ultimate ramuli. 



Ditiola conformis, Earst. 

 Decaying wood of birch, Betula lutea. Catskill mountains. Sep- 

 tember. 



Mutinus bovinus, Morg. 



Sandy soil. Manor. September. The spores are the same as in 

 Mutinus Ramnelii, to which this plant appears to be too closely related. 



Geaster flmbriatus, Fr. 



Ground in woods. Whitehall. August. 



This is the twelfth species of Geaster that has been found in our 



State. Most of the species are quite rare and some have been found 



but once. 



Scleroderma Geaster, Fr. 



Sandy soil. Manor. September. 



Enteridium Rozeanum, Wing. 

 Decaying wood. North Greenbush. This is Beticularia? Rozeana 

 Eost. It resembles Beticularia Lycoperdon externally and has some- 

 times been confused with it. 



Cribraria violacea, Bex. 

 Bark of balsam fir. Adirondack mountains. G. A. Bex. 



Comatricha longa, n. sp. 



[Plate 3. Figs, l to 5.] ^ 



Stems growing from a shining membranous hypothallus, closely 

 gregarious, penetrating the peridia as a columella, capillary, black; 



