Report of the Botanist. 37 



Decaying wood of deciduous trees. Carlisle, Schoharie County. June. 



The affinities of this species are doubtful. It is provisionally referred to 

 the genus Tremella, although the central portion of the substance is fleshy 

 rather than gelatinous. The external portion, however, is gelatinous and the 

 plants revive upon the application of moisture, and are then somewhat tremel- 

 loid, though not very tenacious. Usually two or more are clustered together 

 and form beautiful little rosettes. 



Dacrymyces conglobatus n. sp. (Plate I, figs. 1-4.) 



Scattered, sessile, even, pezizoid, about one line broad, with the thin mar- 

 gin incurved, pink-red, paler within, dark-red when dry, with the margin 

 plicate-lobed ; threads slender, branched, minutely rough ; spores collected in 

 subglobose tufts at the tips of the branches, oblong, obtuse, curved, sometimes 

 nucleate, .0003'-.0004' long. 



Bark of arbor-vitae, Thuja occidentalis. Adirondack Mountains. July. 



Our plant does not well agree with the generic character of the Dacrymyces 

 in its fruit, but its external appearance is so similar to other species of the 

 genus that it seems best for the present to place it here. The specific name 

 has reference to the arrangement of the spores. 



Melanogaster variegatus Tul. 



Ground in shaded roads in woods. Sandlake. Aug. 



Rhizopogon rubescens Tul. 

 Sandy soil. Center. Sept. 



Cynophallus caninus Ft. 



Ground about an old stump. Oneida. H. A. Warne. 

 This species is described as odorless, yet according to Mr. Warne these 

 specimens had a very disagreeable odor. 



Phallus Ravenelii B. & C. 



Ground in woods. Thurman. Oct. 



The description of this species is very imperfect. The specimens were 

 identified by comparison with Mr. Ravenel's notes which he kindly submitted 

 to my inspection. The stem is four or five inches long, the denuded pileus is 

 porous, the pores or cavities of the under or inner surface being larger than 

 the others and giving a somewhat reticulate-pitted or cellular appearance, and 

 there is a short veil at the top of the stem, but concealed beneath the pileus. 



The following synoptical tables will exhibit the prominent distinctive 

 features of the species of Phallus of this State and the United States, so far 

 as I am able to get them from the published descriptions and the specimens 

 at my command : 



New York Species of Phallus. 



Denuded pileus reticulate with coarse deep pits or cells. 



Veil exposed, reticulate with small perforations P. Daemonum Rumph. 



Veil none P. impudicus L. 



Denuded pileus porous, veil not perforate, concealed P. Ravenelii B. & C. 



