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lateral ones short-stalked, the terminal one 8-12 mm. long: 

 spikes shorter than the leaves, simple or compound, interrupted, 

 several- to many-flowered : calyx campanulate, about 7 mm. 

 long, its teeth triangular-lanceolate, acute, tomentose, the longer 

 ones nearly twice as long as the tube : corolla purple ; standard 

 nearly orbicular, short-clawed, about 8 mm. in diameter, about 

 as long as the longer-clawed wing-petals : legume linear, brown- 

 tomentulose, 4-4.5 cm. long, 5 mm. wide: seeds dull, obliquely 

 oval, 3 mm. long. 



Nueva Gerona, Isle of Pines. Cuba, A. H. Curtiss, 1904, no. 

 ^02. 



Related to the Mexican Galactia vndtijiora Robinson. 



N. L. Britton. 



Panaeolus acidus sp. nov. — Pileus 1-3 cm. across, convex 

 then expanded almost plane, smooth, slightly fleshy at the disk, 

 very thin at the margin, brown with yellow tinge ; gills adnate, 

 2-3 mm. broad, black with white edge; stem 8-10 cm. high, 

 slender, hollow, equal, concolorous, 2-3 mm. thick ; spores black, 

 broadly ovate, pointed at each end. 



Growing in a cluster on the bottom of a box in a cellar. The 

 box contained a large bottle of acetic acid which had been broken 

 and the contents emptied on the bottom of the box. The plant 

 grew on this saturated wood. 



In drying the color of the pileus became darker and the edges 

 reflexed. In general appearance it resembles Psilocybe fociiisccii 

 (Pers.) Fr., but the black spores readily distinguish it from that 

 species. 



Type specimens are in tlic Carnegie Museum, Pittsburg, Pa. 



D. R. SUMSTINE. 

 KriTA.NMNc, Pa. 



PROC BIDDINGS OF THE CLUB 



TuESD.AY, December 13, 1904 



The meeting was held at the College of Pharmacy, Dr. II. II. 

 Rusby in the chair, eleven members present. 



Resignations were accepted from Mi.ss Hannah S. Wingate and 

 Mrs. P'.mily H. Terry, and from Messrs. Samuel Sloan, R. II. 

 Lawrence and F. W. Kobbc. 



