94 Twenty- FOURTH Report on the State Museum. 



Sepedonium chkysosperitm Ft. 



On some species of Boletus. Indian Lake. October. 



MoNOTOSPORA TKISEPTATA 71. Sp. , 



Stem erect, straight, septate, gradually tapering upward, sur- 

 mounted by a single broadly elliptical triseptate black spore ; the 

 two central spore cells colored, the two outer ones smaller and 

 colorless or diaphanous. 



Rotten wood. Greenbush. June. (Plate 1, figs. 14-17.) 

 To the naked e^^e the wood occupied by this plant appears to be 

 coated with minute black setae. 



Helvella crispa Ft. 



Ground among fallen leaves in woods. Greig. September. 

 Buffalo. Clinton. 



Helvella sulcata Afz. 



Among moss at the base of a tree. Greig. September. Only 

 a single specimen was found. 



Helvella elastica Bull. 



Hotten wood in woods. Greig. September. 



Helvella gracilis n. sp. 



Pileus thin, somewhat irregular, slightly depressed in the center, 

 entirely free from the stem, pale yellow above, white and rugose- 

 reticulated beneath ; stem long, firm, solid, nearly straight, wavy- 

 uneven, slightly tapering at the top, whitish or dull cream color, 

 with white mycelium at the base ; spores elliptical. 



Ground in open woods. Catskill mountains. July. 



Allied to H. Infula, but a more graceful species, with simple 

 spores. In H. Infula the spores have each two nuclei. 



Leotia circinans Pers. 



Ground in woods. North Elba. August. 



Geoglossum luteum n. sp. 



Club distinct from the stem, smooth, compressed, generally with 

 a groove on one side, luteous, often becoming brown at the apex ; 

 stem equal or slightly enlarged above, stuffed, luteous, minutel}^ 

 scaly ; spores oblong, slightly curved, in a double row, -rm'—m' 

 long. 



Among moss, on and about rotten stumps in swamps or damp 

 woods. "Sandlake. August. (Plate 3, figs. 20-24.) 



