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REMARKS AND OBSERVATIONS 



Aster laevis L. 



A very noticeable form or possibly a variety of this species occurs 

 on Pinnacle hill near Rochester. November. Miss F. Beckwith. 

 It differs from the common forms in its late flowering and in it;? 

 long narrow panicle the branches of which are suberect, 2.5-5 <^^ 

 long. 



Aster undulatus loriformis Burg. 



West Fort Ann, Washington co. October. S. H. Burnham. 



Boletinus paluster Pk. 



This beautiful small species often grows on decaying wood and 

 the mossy bases of trees. It has a white mycelium and pale yellow 

 flesh. Wounds of the flesh often become red after long exposure. 

 The flavor is tardily but sharply acrid. 



Brassica arvensis (L.) Ktze. 

 A white flowered form occurs occasionally. Menands. July. 



Cantharellus infundibuliformis nigricans n. var. 



Pileus blackish ; hymenium very decurrent, the decurrent part 

 destitute of lamellae. Otherwise as in the common form with 

 which it grows. 



Among mosses in swamps. North Elba. September. 



Pileus nigricans ; hymenium valde decurrens, pars decurrens 

 lamellis carens. 



Ceratiomyxa fruticulosa (Muell.) Macbr. 



Decaying wood. Edwards, St Lawrence co. June. A yellow 

 form occurs growing with the common white form and sometimes 

 confluent with it. 



Clitocybe multiceps tricholoma n. var. 

 Flesh of the pileus rather thin, taste mild ; lamellae rounded be- 

 hind, slightly adnexed, otherwise like the type. HoUey, Orleans 

 CO. September. C. A. Mabie. 

 This variety, by the attachment of the lamellae, connects the species 

 with the genus Tricholoma, to which at first sight it is likely to be 



