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COLLEMA PYCNOCARPUM Nyl. 



Mossy trunks of trees. Buffalo. Miss Wilson. 



V 



CoLLEMA PULPOSUM Ach. 



Eockj banks, Herkimer county. Austin. 



CoLLEMA CYRTASPES T'Uclc. 



Rocks. ISTew Baltimore. Howe. • 



Leptogium pulchelltjm ]^yl. 



Rocks and trees. Buffalo. Miss Wilson. ]^ew Baltimore, 

 Howe. Catskill mountains. 



Myriangium Curtisii B. <& M. 



Branches of Crataegus, Buffalo. Miss Wilson. 



Ephebe pubescens Ft. 



Rocks. Haverstraw. Austin. Top of Mount Marcy. 



Stereocaulon condensatum Hoffm. 

 Niagara Falls. Miss Wilson. 



Gyalecta cupularis Schcer. 



Rocks. Niagara Falls. Miss Wilson. 



FUNGI. 

 Agaricus rijbescens Pers. 



Grassy ground in open woods. Greenbush. July. The change 

 of color in the flesh when bruised is not well marked in our speci- 

 mens. 



♦ 

 Agaricus (Amanita) volvatus n. sp. 



Pileus fleshy, convex, at length expanded, striate on the margin, 



sprinkled with small floccose scales, whitish, the disk pale brown ; 



lamellse close, free, white ; stem equal or slightly tapering upward, 



stuffed, minutely floccose-scaly, ringless, whitish ; volva large, firm, 



loose ; spores subelliptical -gVor ^^ ^^ ^^^^ long. Plant 2-3 inches 



high, pileus as broad, stem 3-4 lines thick. 



Damp ground in open woods. Greenbush. July. 



A species well marked by the absence of the annulus and the 

 presence of a large, thick, bulb-like volva, whose free margin is 

 more or less lobed. The lamellae in the dried specimens have 

 assumed a pale cinnamon hue. 



