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Physcia setosa {Ach.) Nyl. 

 Rocks. Cascade lake. August. 



Placodium vitellinum {Ehrh.) N. <^ H. 

 Rocks. North Elba. June. 



Biatora Laureri Hepp 

 Bark of beech trees. North Elba. June. 



Biatora Schweinitzii Fr. 

 Decorticated wood of balsam fir. Near Marcy camp. August. 



Biatora granulosa {Ehrh.) Poets ch 

 Mucky and heathy soil, dead mosses, etc. Mt Marcy and North Elba. 



August. 



Cladonia sobolescens JVyl. 



Thin soil covering rocks. Dresden Station. August. 



Cladonia decorticata Floerk. 

 Ground. Mt Marcy. August. 



Lepiota solidipes fi. sp. 



Pileus fleshy, very convex or subhemispheric, becoming broadly con- 

 vex or nearly plane, white, sometimes with a slight pinkish tint, flesh 

 white, taste and odor farinaceous; lamellae thin, close, free, white; stem 

 equal or somewhat bulbous, silky-fibrillose, solid, white or whitish, the 

 thin annulus slightly floccose externally, subevanescent ; spores globose 

 or subglobose, .00016 to .0002 inch broad. 



Pileus 2 to 4 in. broad; stem 2 to 4 in. long, 4 to 6 lines thick. 



Damp or swampy ground. Woodlawn park, Saratoga. October. 

 F. G. Rowland. 



The solid stem and small globose spores specially distinguish this 

 species. By the former it may be separated from L. fiaucina, and by 

 both from Z. naucinoides. 



Tricholoma portentosum Fr. 



Woods. Sand Lake. September. Our specimens have the pileus 

 yellow on the margin as in the form figured by Saunders and Smith. 

 We have not yet found the typical form, which has the pileus uniformly 

 sooty brown. Our plant seems worthy of varietal distinction and we 

 name it variety centrale. 



