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ExiDIA REPANDA Fv. 



Dead brandies of deciduous trees. Common. Spring and 

 autumn. 



N^MATELIA NUCLEATA Fr. 



Decaying trunks and branches of deciduous trees. Johnsburgh 

 and Center. October. 



I^^MATELIA ATKATA n. SJ). 



Flat, effused, pallid or brownisli, at length black ; nuclei numer- 

 ous, scattered or close, rather large, often rugose and nmbilicate 

 soon black. 



Dead branches of bass wood, Tilia Americana. Helderberg 

 mountains and Greenbush. May. 



Yery distinct by reason of the black nuclei. 



Cyphella fulya B. (& R. 



Dead branches of alders. Common. October and ]^ovember. 



Phallus impudicus Ft. 



Ground amons: leaves. Buffalo. Clinton. Thurman. October. 



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CoKYNiTEs Rayenelh BevJc. 



Ground. Albany Rural Cemetery. 



Our plant has a very strong odor and is not at all attenuated 

 toward the base — particulars in which it does not agree with the 

 description, but they are scarcely to be regarded of specific 

 importance. 



A species of Corynites, possibly the same as this, has been found 

 near IJtica by Judge A. S. Johnson and Hon. Horatio Seymour, 

 but I have seen no specimens. 



Geastek minimus Schw. 



Grassy ground. Knowersville, Albany county. May. 



Lycoperdon atropurpureum Yitt. 



Grassy ground. West Albany, Octobea-. A single specimen. 



Lycoperdon molle Pe7's. 



Swamps. Sandlake. August. This is thought by some to be 

 a variety of L. gemmatum, but it appears to me to be quite 

 distinct. 



Lycoperdon subincarnatum n. sp. 



Peridium globose, sessile, bursting at the apex by a circular 

 aperture, rough, with equal, close, subpyramidal, persistent brown- 



