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This interesting little species seems to be confined to the 
one peculiar habitat. 
Psilocybe Californica sp. nov. 
In lawns and grassy places ; pileus thin-convex to expanded 
and somewhat depressed, 114-21% cm., dark watery-brown 
when moist, pallid when dry, smooth or the disc somewhat 
wrinkled, moist, hygrophanous, margin even, lamellae some- 
what decurrent, rather distant, interveined, subventricose, 
pale brown to fuscous; spores fuscous, subpellucid, elliptical, 
6-7 x 3-443 stipe 3-5 cm. x 2-3 mm., equal or slightly 
enlarged above, smooth, dark brown, cartilaginous, hollow; 
flesh very thin and watery, whitish, unchanging, taste and 
odor mild 
Stanford University, California, November 30, 1go1, C. 
. Baker, no. 152. 
This species resembles Psclocybe foenzseci?, which grows in 
similar situations in the Eastern States and in Europe, but the 
pileus is not at first campanulate, the lamellae are subdecur- 
rent and interveined and the spores are much smaller. 
2. New Tropical Fungi Mostly from Porto Rico. 
The following undescribed species of fungi are mostly 
from an interesting collection of leaf-parasites made in Porto 
Rico by Mr, A. A. Heller, during December, 1902, and 
January, 1903. <A few species are included from other local- 
ities. The types are in the herbarium of the New York 
Botanical Garden. 
HyYsTERIACEAE. 
Lembosia Coccolobae sp. nov. 
Onliving leaves of Coccoloba uvifcra; epiphyllous, spots 
brown, at first often stellate, then orbicular, 4-6 mm., or con- 
fluent and somewhat effused ; mycelium sparse, fuscous, rather 
widely etfused, hyphae continuous or sparingly septate, oc- 
casionaly for king and anastomosing, slender, 3-4 thick ; hy- 
phopodia sessile, ovoid, dark fuscous, small, about 7 x 5 #3; 
ascomata scattered, discrete, black, linear, straight or slightly 
curved, ends obtuse, 300-600 x roo; subiculum scanty, of 
