20 Report of the State Botanist. 



This singular species is apparently related to Stereum abietinum, 

 to which it was formerly referred, but from which it was seen to 

 be distinct when the spore characters of that species were 

 published. 



The thick interior stratum is similar in color to the hymenium 

 and appears to be composed of densely compacted erect fibrils. 

 The h^nnenium, under a lens, is seen to possess both setae and 

 metuloids, thus combining the characters of the genera 

 Hymenochaete and Peniophora, and obliterating the distinction 

 of these as Dcedalea confragosa, in its various forms, destroys the 

 distinction between Trametes and Lenzites. Moreover when 

 these setae and metuloids are more highly magnified they are 

 found to vary among themselves, being sometimes smooth and 

 sometimes w^arted, acute or blunt, colored or colorless, and some- 

 times even partly colored and smooth and partly colorless and 

 warted. 



Also the hymenium, though dry and firm in texture, becomes 

 rimose as in many of the species of Cortioium with a soft and waxy 

 hymenium. , 



Lepidoderma fulvum Mass. 



Decayed wood. Ithaca. Dudley. 



This is a small form scarcely one line high. The scales of the 

 peridium are white, the few large spores intermingled with those 

 of the prevailing size are .0007 to .0008 in. broad, and the 

 slender threads of the capillitium are sometimes furnished with 

 thickenings as in those of Z. iigrinum. The plants grow either 

 singly or in groups of three to five. 



-fficidmm Actseae Opiz. 

 Living leaves of baneberry, Actcea sjpicata v. rubra. Adams, 

 Jefferson county. June. 



Phoma enteroleuca Sacc. 



Decorticated branches of apple tree. Bethlehem, Albany 

 county. May. 



Our specimens differ from the typical form in growing on 

 decorticated branches and in having the spores slightly broader. 





