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isli scales or granules ; spores greenisli-ochre, filling almost the 

 entire cavity. 



Plant 6"-10" in diameter, generally of a pinldsh-brown color, 

 with but little cellular tissue at the base. The periclium is more 

 thin than it is in L. pyrifor7ne^ but not so brittle. 



Rotten wood in woods. Sandlake and Greig. August and 

 September. 



Scleroderma Bovista Ft. 



Grassy ground. Greenbush and Albany. July. 



Stemonitis fusoa Both. 



Rotten wood. Buffalo. Clinton. Helderberg mountains. 

 June. Darker colored than S.femiginea. 



Arcyria punicea Pers. 



Rotten wood. Greenbush. July. 



Triohia pyriformis Hoffm. 



Rotten wood and bark. Buffalo. Clinton. Center. October. 



Trichia chrysosperma DC. 



Among mosses. Sandlake. August. 



Trichia varia Pers. 



Bark of an old log. Helderberg mountains. May. 



Trichia serpula Pers. 



Rotten wood, etc. Buffalo. Clinton. Center. October. 



DiDYMIUM SQUAMULOSUM A. (& S. 



Bark of dead branches. Sandlake. 



DiCTYDIUM MAGNUM n. Sp. 



Peridium globose, thin, fragile, irregularly reticulated, purplish- 

 blue, pruinose ; stem elongated, filiform, whitish or straw color ; 

 spores globose, black, 2-^' in diameter. 



On some efiete Polyporus and wood impregnated, with its myce- 

 lium. Center. October. 



The stems are 4"-6" long, and in the dry specimens they become 

 twisted and entangled so that it is difficult to separate a plant from 

 the cluster. The peridia are about -^' in diameter, rupture irre- 

 gularly, are iridescent and look like small clusters of miniature 

 grapes or little blue berries. 



