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Pileus firm, sessile or more often efifused-reflexed , 2-4 X 2-10 

 X 0.4-2 cm., buffy-brown to snuff-brown or buckthorn-brown, 

 but often olive-ochre or greenish yellow from the spores, rough 

 and more or less uneven, minutely velvety-tomentose or becoming 

 glabrous, at length covered by a distinct, hard crust; context 

 brown, 0.3-1 cm. or more thick behind; tubes 3-7 mm. long, 

 sometimes in two layers, olive green within, the mouths gray, 

 brown, or greenish, angular, 4-6 per mm. ; spores globose, smooth, 

 greenish, yellow, S-S/jl in diameter; setae absent or present but 

 not abundant, projecting, brown; with elongated pointed setae- 

 like hyphae, 8-1 2/i in diameter in the trama and the context; 

 hyphae 3-4^- 



On logs of maple and beech. 



Known from New York, Ohio, and Michigan, 

 Pennsylvania State College 



NEWS ITEMS 



Those interested in the life of the late E. L. Greene and in 

 Dr. Bartlett's account of it in ToRREYA for July, 1916, will 

 welcome another account of his life from a somewhat different 

 angle in the Catholic World for October, 1917, where there is a 

 twelve-page biographical sketch by Margaret B. Downing. Few, 

 if any, of Dr. Greene's biographers seem to know of a forty-page 

 article about him by Mrs. Brandegee in Zoe for April, 1893. 



Dr. Carl Skottsberg delivered an illustrated lecture before the 

 Club on November 13, on the island of Juan Fernandez. On 

 November 20, with Mrs. Skottsberg, he sailed for Sweden, after 

 an absence of thirteen months spent in botanical work in southern 

 South America. 



