Report of the Botanist. 71 



HtDNUM C0NFLUEN8 U. Sp, 



Pilous thin, tough, expanded or slightly depressed, sometimes 

 confluent, zonate, slightly fibrous- tomentose, hygrophanous, dark 

 brown when moist, drab brown when dry ; spines slender, 1"^2" 

 long, grayish-violet ; stem short, surrounded below by a dense 

 mycelioid tomentum spores subglobose, .00012 in. in diameter. 



Plant 2-3' high, pileus 2-3' broad. 



Htdnum sulphureum Schw. 



Decaying wood. Buffalo. Clinton. 



Hydnum ferkdginosum Ft. 



Half buried sticks and stems of herbs. Center. October. 



SiSTOTREMA C0NFLUEN8 PcTS. 



Shaded banks. Copake. October. 



In our specimens the pileus is not at all villous, but I am dis- 

 posed to regard our plant as nothing more than a smooth variety. 

 It is scarcely to be expected that a rigid agreement should always 

 be found to exist between our fungoid plants, modified as they 

 often are by local causes, and the brief descriptions too often 

 drawn up from dried specimens only or from these and the few 

 hasty notes of collectors. The describer, especially of our fleshy 

 species, ought also to be the collector and the observer of them in 

 their native haunts. 



Grandinia coriaria Peck. 



Efl'used, membranaceuus-tomeritose, separable from the matrix, 

 under side and margin tawny-yellow, upper side and minute 

 crowded granules greenish or dingy olivaceous; spores globose, 

 rough, .0003 in. in diameter. 



Forming patches l'-3' in diameter on old scraps of leather in 

 damp places. Greenbush. August. 



It is a very distinct but apparently a very rare species. 



Thelephora Willeyi Clinton. 



Pileus infundibnliform, thin, smooth, obscurely zoned, w^hite, 

 the margin entire or laciniately toothed and lobed ; hymenium 

 smooth, concolorous; stem central, equal or slightly tapering 

 downwards, solid, white. 



Plant l'-1.5' high, pileus 6"-12" broad, stem .5"-!" thick. 



Ground in woods. Buff'alo. Clinton. Lowville. September. 



Sometimes the pileus is split on one side down to the stem. 

 The species is dedicated to Mr. H. Willey, a most active and 

 enthusiastic lichenist. 



