34 NEW YORK STATE MUSEUM 
REMARKS AND OBSERVATIONS 
Aecidium hydnoideum B. & C. 
This parasitic leaf fungus attacks living leaves of the leather- 
wood, Dirca palustris L. It usually forms a single large 
yellowish or reddish yellow spot on a leaf. A single cluster of cups 
commonly occupies each spot. 
Agrostis borealis Hartm. 
Along McIntyre brook, Adirondack mountains. July. “This is 
an unusual form having the awn of the spikelet short and not ex- 
serted. 
Boletus scaber Fr. 
In this species the hymenium or mass of tubes is usually more 
or less depressed around the stem. In three specimens collected 
in Rosedale, Long Island, by F. H. Ames the tubes are adnate at 
first and then in drying separate from the stem carrying with them 
a thin layer of the external coating, thereby forming a cuplike 
depression about its insertion. 
Boletus subaureus rubroscriptus n. var. 
Pileus variously marked with red lines. Rochester. September. 
W. E. Abbs. 
Pileus lineis rubris variis notatus. 
Cladonia cristatella vestita Tuck. 
Sandy soil. Orient Point. November. R. Latham. 
Clavaria obtusissima minor n. var. 
Plant smaller than the type, with more numerous and more 
slender branches and branchlets, the ultimate ones not so distinctly 
consolidated nor umbilicate, but obtuse or obtusely dentate. 
Bolton, Warren co. September. For the description of the 
species see chapter on “ New species of extralimital fungi.” 
Minor, rami ramulique numerosiores et graciliores, ultimati non 
distincte consolidati ne umbilicati, sed obtusi vel obtuse dentati. 
Cynanchum nigrum (L.) Pers. 
The black swallowwort is abundant near Rochester not far from 
Cobbs Hill reservoir. It usually grows in small patches of six to 
ten feet in diameter. The pods often divaricate in such a way 
as to give a somewhat stellate appearance to their arrangement. 
