174 REVISION OF THE NoRTH AMERICAN HYDNACEAE 
Нав.: On ground under logs. Oct.—Nov. 
Rance: New Jersey, Allis; Pennsylvania, Schweinitz. 
_ The type specimen is in the Schweinitz Herbarium in the Phila- 
delphia Academy of Science, and though somewhat fragmentary 
shows many characters of the plant. The only essential difference 
between the Schweinitz and Ellis plants is in the color. The 
former is nearly a tan color and the latter is grayish brown, but 
Schweinitz in his description says “ cinereo gilvo.”’ 
The above description is drawn from the dried specimens, as it 
has not been my privilege to see the living plants or to receive 
any field notes upon the species. It is a very delicate little spe- 
cies and appropriately named. I know of nothing with which it 
appears to be very closely related. 
10. Phellodon Ellisianus sp. nov. 
Plant terrestrial, mesopodous, gregarious, slightly confluent, 
small; pileus nearly round, umbilicate to infundibuliform, 0.7-1.5 
cm. wide ; surface even, radiately fibrous-striate, subzonate, nearly 
smooth, mouse-colored to fuscous with whitish marginal band ; 
margin thin, even, sterile, whitish ; substance fibrous, subcompact, 
thin; stem slender, terete, central, attenuate downward to a bulb- 
ous tomentose base, cinereous above to mouse-colored below, 
4-7 mm. long, 1-2 mm. wide; teeth relatively coarse, short, sub- 
decurrent, cinereous, 1 mm. long and less, 0.12 mm. wide, 3 and 
4 to one millimeter ; spores globose, echinulate, white, 3.5 м wide. 
Нав. : On the ground іп wood-road. Oct. 
RANGE: New Jersey, E//is. 
The type specimens are in the Herbarium of the New York 
Botanical Garden. The species in some of its characters comes 
near P. delicatus (Schw.) but differs in color, its more compact and 
firmer texture of the substance, its more regular form of pileus, 
and its deep central depression. In size also it averages some- 
what smaller. It is a most beautiful and delicate little species, 
likely to be overlooked on account of its size and color. The 
only specimens known are those collected by J. B. Ellis to whom 
I take pleasure in dedicating this species. 
SPECIES DUBIA ET INQUIRENDA 
Hydnum confluens Peck, Rep. N. Y. State Mus. Nat. Hist. 26: 
71. 1874. The type specimen in the N. Y. State Herbarium at 
