20 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
Puceinia simillima Arthur 
Leaves and sheaths of Phragmites phragmites. Near 
Savannah, Wayne co. September. 
Paspalum muhlenbergii Nash 
Bedford Park, Westchester co. September. S. H. Burnham. 
Paspalum prostratum Nash 
Sandy soil. Manor, Suffolk co. August. 
Russula densifolia Secr. 
Among decaying leaves in woods. Lake Pleasant. August. 
This species is closely related to R. adusta from which it 
may be separated by the slight reddening of the flesh where 
wounded. Our specimens are a peculiar form in which many of 
the lamellae are forked at the base. They also separate at the 
inner extremity from the stem and pileus and curl outward reveal- 
ing the hymenophore beneath. All the specimens found exhibited 
this character. It indicates a feeble attachment of the hymenium 
to the hymenophore and is suggestive of a relationship to the 
genus Paxillus. The white spores, however, show that it is not 
referable to that genus. It may be called variety paxil- 
loides. : 
Russula furcata (Pers.) Fr. 
Ground in woods. Near Albany. July. An edible species. 
Sarcoscypha rhenana Fckl. 
Capular, stipitate or subsessile, single or cespitose, often irreg- 
ular, incurved on the margin when young, externally pruinose 
tomentose, pale yellow; hymenium pale yellow becoming orange 
tinted with age or in drying, sometimes slightly pruinose; stem 
short or almost none, when well developed whitened by a short 
downy tomentum; asci cylindric; spores elliptic, verrucose, .0008- 
.0009 of an inch long, .0004-.0005 broad, commonly containing one 
or two shining nuclei. 
Cups 4-8 lines broad; stem 2-6 lines long, 2-4 thick. Decaying 
leaves and other vegetable matter in woods. Lake Pleasant. 
August. Its relationship is with S. imperialis from which 
it differs in the character of its spores and in its more highly 
colored hymenium. 
