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Effusa lateritias maculas formans; hyphae erectae, crass. 8-10 », 
septatae, nodulis paucis globosis ovalibusve nodulo terminali ob- 
scure dentigero, long. 30-40 ,»; sporae ellipsoideae, 8-12 x 6-8 pz. 
Hygrophorus sphaerosporus Pk. 
Utica. August. K. F. Symonds. 
Hymenula musae Pat. © 
Banana rind. Menands, Albany co. September. 
Hypholoma fragile n. sp. 
PLATE V, FIG, I-7 
Pileus thin, fragile, conic or subcampanulate, becoming convex, 
obtuse or subumbonate, floccose squamulose when young, with the 
margin slightly appendiculate with fragments of the veil, glabrous 
when mature, yellowish, grayish or subochraceous, the center 
sometimes a little darker; lamellae thin, narrow, close, adnate, 
whitish or pailid becoming purplish brown; stem slender, stuffed 
or hollow, glabrous or minutely floccose, white; spores .0003— 
.0004 of an inch long, .coo16—.0002 broad. 
Pileus 6-12 lines broad; stem 1-2 inches long, 1-1.5 lines thick. 
Decaying wood or among fallen leaves. Star Lake, St Lawrence 
co. and near Painted Post, Steuben co. August. 
Pileus tenuis, fragilis, conicus vel subcampanulatus, in maturi- 
tate convexus, obtusus vel subumbonatus, primus floccoso-squamulo- 
sus et margine leviter appendiculatus veli fragmentis, demum 
glaber, flavescens, griseus vel subochraceus, aliquando centro colo- 
ratior; lamellae tenues, angustatae, confertae, adnatae, albidae 
pallidaeve demum purpureo-brunneae; stipes gracilis, farctus, 
cavusve, glaber vel minute floccosus, albus; sporae 8-10 x 4-5 +. 
Lactarius peckii Burl. 
Damp ground near Smithtown, Suffolk co. August. 
Lecanora fuscata (Schrad.) Th. Fr. 
Rocks. Haverstraw, Rockland co. C. F. Austin. 
. Leptosphaeria inquinans n. sp. 
Perithecia densely gregarious, subcarbonaceous, nestling in oe 
‘bark, covered by the epidermis which is pierced by the minute black 
ostiolum, globose, 34 mm broad, black; asci cylindraceous or sub- 
