Report of the Botanist. 39 



Clavaria corynoides Pk. 



Small, simple, clavate ; club obtuse, yellowish, or cream colored, gradually 

 narrowed below and losing itself in the short white stem. 



Gregarious, about half an inch high. 



Damp ground by roadsides. Adirondack Mountains. Aug. 



Tremella lutescens Pers. 



Dead poplar branches. Adirondack Mountains. Aug. 



Guepinia Peziza Tul. 



Cup-shaped, single or clustered, erumpent, stipitate, at first , nearly closed, 

 then open and concave, l'-3" broad, yellow, often irregular, base stem-like, 

 concolorous or slightly whitish-pruinose, longitudinally wrinkled, the ridges 

 extending upwards on the base of the cup ; substance tremelloid, rather tough; 

 spores oblong-elliptical, at first simple, then one to three-septate, .0004- 

 .0005' long, borne on spicules at the tips of rather thick subclavate sporo- 

 phores. 



Dead alder. Center. Sept. 



In the dried specimens the color inclines to orange. The general appear- 

 ance is not unlike that of a clustered Peziza. As our specimens exhibit some 

 characters not mentioned in the description of the species to which we have 

 referred them, we have given a full description of them. 



Hymenula olivacea Pk. 



Thin, closely applied to the matrix, olive-green, shining, subviscid, definite 

 or subconfluent, with a narrow raised margin which is sometimes whitish ; 

 spores minute, cylindrical, straight, trinucleate, colorless, .0002' long. 



Dead stems of JEupatorium ageratoides. Catskill Mountains. Sept. 



Lycoperdon glabellum Pk. 



Subglobose or subturbinate, 1/-1.5' broad, sometimes narrowed below into 

 a short stem-like base, furfuraceous with very minute nearly uniform persis- 

 tent warts, which appear to the naked eye like minute granules or papillae, 

 yellow, opening by a small aperture ; inner mass purplish-brown, capillitium 

 with a central columella ; spores purplish-brown, globose, rough, .0002'- 

 .00025' in diameter. 



Ground in copses and in pine woods. West Albany and North G-reenbush. 

 Autumn. 



The verrucse or spinules are so minute, that at first sight, they are scarcely 

 visible, the peridium appearing nearly smooth. They persist even in the old 

 and flaccid condition of the plant. The species is manifestly closely related 

 to L. atropurpuremn, but that is described as " at first rough with minute 

 spines," thus indicating that it becomes smooth afterwards. It is also said to 

 be " dingy-rufous," but our plant is constantly yellow. 



Lycoperdon calyptriforme Berk. 



Moss-covered rocks. Adirondack Mountains. Aug. 

 This species is remarkable for its peculiar shape and singular habitat. It 

 is evidently rare. But two specimens were found. 



