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Gnomoniella gnomon (Tode) 



Sphaeria gnomon Tode, Fungi Meckl., 2 : 50, fig. 125. 1790. 

 Gnomonia vulgaris Ces. & DeXot. Schem. Sfer, 57. 

 Cryptosphaeria gnomon Grev. 

 Gnomoniella vulgaris Sacc. Syll. 1 : 416. 1882. 



On fallen leaves of Corylus and Ostrya, West Troy. C. H. Peck. 



Gymnopilus carbonarius (Fr.) Murrill 

 (Flammula carbonaria Quel.) 

 Growing on charred pine stumps, McKown's grove near Albany. 

 H. D. House, October 28, 1917. 



Hebeloma colvini Peck 



(Figure 4) 



In barren sandy wastes near Karner, Albany county. H. D. 

 House, October 8, 1917 and H. D. House and G. F. Atkinson, 

 November 1, 191 7. 



Plants gregarious or scattered, pileus only above the surface of 

 the sand, 2 to 7 cm high ; pileus 2 to 5 cm broad ; stems stout, 4 to 7 

 mm thick, even, rounded at the base, solid or stuffed to hollow 

 above, pruinose at the apex. Pileus convex-expanded, viscid when 

 moist, smooth, walnut-brown when moist, sometimes paler to 

 alutaceous, sometimes with a distinct lighter zone on the margin, 

 rarely the darker zone on the margin, odor and taste not distinctive ; 

 flesh whitish under the brown color which is next the cuticle, the 

 thin margin incurved, slightly exceeding the lamellae ; structure 

 homogeneous, floccose, but cuticle more or less gelatinous and 

 brown-colored beneath. Lamellae adnexed, sinuate, not crowded, 

 subventricose, pallid to vinaceous-drab and tinged with ochraceous 

 when covered with spores, edge whitish, cystidia none on the sides 

 of the lamellae, edge of the lamellae with sterile, flexuose, cylin- 

 drical or subclavate cells 40 to 50 x 6 to 8 fi; basidia 4-spored; 

 spores long ovate to subellipsoid, inequilateral, smooth, pale yellow- 

 ish, in mass ochraceous-tawny, granular, 12 to 16 x 7 to 10 /x. 



The species appears to have been named in honor of Mr Ver- 

 planck Colvin, at one time director of the Adirondack land survey. 

 The spot where the above described specimens were collected is 

 perhaps the type locality as no similar spot with such an abundance 

 of the species was found elsewhere near Karner. 



Hebeloma parvifructum Peck 



(Figure 5) 



In Pine woods, McKown's grove, near Albany. H. D. House 

 and G. F. Atkinson, October 28, 1917. 



