REPORT OF THE STATE BOTANIST 1908 27 
Sorosporium saponariae Rud. 
In flowers and flower buds of _field chickweed, Cerastium 
arywense J.) Helderbers mountains. June. 5S: H. Burnham. 
So far as known this is its first discovery in this country. 
Sphenolobus hellerianus (Nees) Steph. 
Decaying wood. Altamont, Albany co. May. 
Sporodesmium pluriseptatum (K. & H.) Pk. 
Rind of summer-crookneck squash, Cucurbita pepo L. 
Menands, Albany co. September. 
iis ss) .Ot 6 Ce Sint i) m.uc'o.s um var. “plurise p- 
eign picitst. -e.-tat. bit ii" differs: so. “decidedly from. 5. 
mucosum that it is far more satisfactory to give it: specific 
rank than varietal. The spores in our specimens exceed in size 
and in the number of septa the spores of the typical variety even 
and therefore intensify the difference between it and S. muco- 
sum. In our specimens they are 40-80 » long and 3-8-septate 
with usually more than two longitudinal septa. The fungus forms 
black velvety patches 14 to % inch in diameter. | 
Tricholoma subcinereum n. sp. 
Pileus thin, plane or centrally depressed, subglabrous, whitish 
pale cinereous or grayish brown, the center sometimes a little 
darker and with a slight pruinose appearance, flesh white, odor 
strong, taste slightly and tardily acrid; lamellae thin, close, slightly 
sinuate, white; stem central or eccentric, equal or slightly thick- 
ened toward the base, solid, silky-fibrillose, whitish or brown ex- 
ternally, brownish within; spores broadly elliptic, .0003-.00036 of 
an inch long, .00024—.00028 broad. 
Pileus 1.5-2.5 inches broad; stem 1.5—3 inches long, 3-7 lines 
tale =: 
Ground or buried wood in a cellar. Pittsford, Monroe co. 
June. F. S. Boughton. 
A singular species suggestive in some of its characters of 
Tew neloms himite,«) .sehumacheri and T.. sub- 
pulverulentum. The forms with whitish pileus sometimes 
become grayish brown in drying. 
Pileus tenuis, planus vel centro depressus, subglaber, albidus 
pallido-cinereus vel griseo-brunneus, aliquando in centro magis 
coloreus et leviter pruinosus, carne alba, odore pungente, flavore 
