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lected in North Elba. Near Meadowdale a variety occurs in 
which the petals are variegated with blue and white. This variety 
_ has been observed there for several years and appears to be con- 
stant in its characters. I have also received .specimens of it from 
other places and it seems strange that it has not been designated 
by name by some of those botanists who have made a special study 
of the violets. 
Vicla rotundifolia Mx. - 
Fine specimens of the round leaved yellow violet showing the 
branched peduncles of the clistogamic flowers were found by the 
roadside 2 miles south of Aiden Lair in July. 
Viola selkirkii Pursh. 
this pretty, but with us rare, little blue violet has eee 
from its former station in a pine grove near West Albany. It was 
found last spring in a grove of arbor vitae trees near Minerva, 
Essex co. 
oi Xylaria grandis Pk. 
Van Etten, Chemung co. W. C. Barbour. The specimens on 
which this Species was founded were sent me by G. W. Clinton 
in 1872. No other specimens of the species had been seen by me 
till these came from Mr Barbour. They are smaller than the 
typical form and two of the three specimens sent have the clubs 
merely mucronate rather than acuminate. The radicating base 
is wanting in all the specimens, but it appears to have been broken 
off in collecting. The spores are of the same character as those 
of the type specimens and I have no doubt of the specific identity 
of the two fungi. It must be a rare species to escape a second 
discovery for 30 years. 
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EDIBLE FUNGI 
Collybia acervata Fr. 
TUFTED COLLYBIA 
PLATE 84, ric. 8-13 
Pileus slightly fleshy, convex becoming expanded or nearly 
plane, glabrous, hygrophanous, pale tan color or incarnate red 
and sometimes obscurely striatulate on the margin when moist, 
whitish after the escape of the moisture; lamellae narrow, thin, 
