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B. unirolor Fro6t- Lakes, Dartmouth, AHMK, 



B. pcch-ii Frost, var. hevipcs. Pt. PI. Park, Halifax, 

 AHMK. 



B. eximiiis Pk. Point Pleasant Park, Halifax. AHMK. 



B. coriicus Rav. Spores Ti x 4 microns. Dartmouth, 

 AHMK. 



B. affiiiis Pk. Waverley, Halifax county, AHMK. 



B. purpureus Fr. Dartmouth, AHMK. 



B. hoc I litis L. Lunenhurg, MCH. Dartmouth, AHMK, 



Poly poms (fonies) rihis Fr. On the bases of old red cur- 

 rant bushes, Dartmouth, AHMK. 



P. hi'spidoides Pk. On dead trunks of Picea. New Glas- 

 gow, WPF. 



P. sclureiirifsii Fr. Dartmouth, AMHK. Lunenburg, 

 MCH. (Phaoliis sistotrenioides Murrill.) 



Hydnuin cijathifonne Seha^ff. Common near Pictou town, 

 in thickets of spruce and fir, CLM. 



H . scabrosum Fr. Lunenburg", MCH. 



H. gravcolcns suhzonatum Pk. Middleton, RRG. 



Phceodon feiitiicus (Karst.) Hennings. On the ground 

 under conifers. Merigomish, WPF. 



Tremellodon gelatinosiim Pers. A few specimens were 

 found on decaying firs or spruce lyiug on mossy ground in the 

 woods above Hartley's Waterfall, Pirate's Cove near Mulgrave, 

 Strait of Canso, Iv"ova Scotia, On the 29th Sept., 1904. Dr. 

 G. r. Hay and AHMK. 



The following descriptive note was made on the largest 

 specimen about 30 hours after collection, when it must have 

 shrunken considerable. Pileus white, opal-like, spatulate, 

 spines white, 500 by GOO microns long, 250 to 300 microns broad 

 at the base, from which they taper to the i)oints which are dis- 

 tinctly recui*ved towards the stipe. Length of specimen 15mm, 

 breadth of the fan-shaped frond 7 mm, an<l of tlu; sti|X^ 4 mm. 

 Spores f) to 7 microns in diameter. The whole was shrinking 



