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Collybia lacerata Lasch. 

 Dry soil among grasses and bayberry bushes. Fishers island, 

 Suffolk CO. October. C. C. Hanmer. In these specimens the ex- 

 panded pileus is umbonate and the umbo is darker colored than the 

 rest. The specimens agree well with the figure of the species as 

 given in Cooke's Illustrations of British Fungi. The spores in 

 our specimens are broadly elliptic or subglobose and .00024-.0003 

 of an inch long. 



Cortinarius intrusus Pk. 



Carnation beds in greenhouses. Highland Falls, Orange co. 

 January. Ernest Palmer. Communicated by G. F. Atkinson. 

 The species was described from specimens found growing in mush- 

 room beds in conservatories in Massachusetts and New Jersey and 

 communicated by R. Macadam and C. Mcllvaine. 



Cortinarius validipes n. sp. 



Pileus fleshy, thick, convex becoming nearly plane, dry, squamu- 

 lose or floccose squamulose, ochraceous, flesh white tinged with! 

 yellow next the lamellae, taste mild; lamellae thin, narrow, close,] 

 adnate or decurrent with a tooth, yellowish white becoming cinna- 

 mon; stem stout, firm, solid, fibrous, striate at the top by the de- 

 current teeth of the lamellae, subannulate from the adherent re- 

 mains of the Avebby veil, yellowish white, whitish within ; spores 

 subelliptic, .0003-.0004 of an inch long, .0002-.00024 broad. 



Pileus 3-6 inches broad ; stem 4-5 inches long, 1-2 inches thick. 

 Coopers Plains, Steuben co. September. 



A cluster of six plants was found growing in a small excavation 

 near a farmhouse. The weather had been unusually warm and 

 dry for several weeks, but a soaking rain two days before and a 

 thunder shower one day later seem to have been favorable to the 

 development of this large fine mushroom. It belongs to the section 

 Dermoeybe. 



Crataegus arcana Beadle 



Moores Mills, Dutchess co. May and October. W. W. Eg- 

 gleston. 



Crataegus bissellii Sarg. 



Rocky pasture, near Staatsburg, Dutchess co. May and Septem- 

 ber. Our plants differ from the typical form of the species only 

 in having stamens 5-8 and anthers pale pink soon fading to white. 



