Report of the Botanist. 83 



SOLENIA OCHRACEA Tloffm. 



Kotten wood. Savannah, Wayne county. October. 



Cl ATARI A KUFESCEXS Schcpff. 



Ground in woods. Sandlake. 31. Pech. Greenbusli. August. 



This plant occurs after heavy rains. It sometimes grows in 

 continuous rows several feet in extent. The pinkish-red tips of 

 the branches fade with age. The axils are rounded and the plant 

 is quite fragile. Fries considers it a variety of C. aurea. 



Clay ARIA pusilla Peck. 



Stem slender, solid, rather tough, much and irregularly branched ; 

 branches unequal, divergent ; tips acute. 

 Plant scarcely 1' high, yellowish. 



Ground under spruce and balsam trees. North Elba. Sep- 

 tember. 



This plant is distinguished from C. tetragona by its terete stems 

 and irregular ramification. 



Clavaria clay ATA Peck. 



Simple, straight, clavate, obtuse, smooth, not hollow, yel- 

 low when fresh, rugose-wrinkled and orange-colored when dry, 

 4"-6'' high. 



Damp shaded banks by road-sides. Sandlake. June. (Plate 

 1, fig. 9.) The surface of the ground where it grows is covered 

 by a green confervoid stratum. 



Tremella albida Huds. 



Dead birch trees. Sandlake. October. 



Tremella colorata Peck. 



Plant gregarious, swollen, subglobose or irregular, soft, pulpy, 

 raisin-colored when moist, externally black and internally brownish- 

 pink when dry ; filaments colored in the mass ; spores globose, 

 colored like the hymenium when mature, .0005' to .0007' in 

 diameter. 



Bark of dead ash trees. Tyre. September. 



The plants are generally about one-fourth of an inch thick and 

 high. They burst through the epidermis and stain the surface of 

 the bark a dull reddish color, but within it is stained black. The 

 species may be readily known by the globose colored spores. 



Stemonitis typhoides DC, 



Eotten stumps. Greenbush. June. 



