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regard the stations near Jamesville as one locality there are now three 

 localities in the State where this fern is known to grow. 



Botrychium Lunaria, Sw. A new station for this rare fern has been 

 discovered near Syracuse, and specimens have been contributed by 

 Mrs. H. S. Gifford. 



Chara foetida var. longibracteata, A. Br. This interesting variety of 

 our common chara occurs in pools by the side of the railroad at Ve- 

 rona. 



Chara fragilis, Desv. This and the preceding species abound in the 

 "Green Lakes" of Onondaga county. On account of the clearness of 

 the water, the plants are seen at a great depth and they give the green 

 appearance that suggests the popular name of the lakes. 



Fissidens grandifrons,.i?nY7- Ilivulets near Jamesville, but as usual 

 the moss is sterile. 



Cladonia papillaria, Hoffm. Sterile soil. Ballston. July. 



Agaricus melleus, Vahl. This extremely variable species sometimes 

 has a white pileus. 



Agaricus virescens, Pk. " I find that this name is preoccupied and 

 substitute for it Agaricus viriditinctus. 



Gomphidius rhodoxanthus, Schw. This plant has been thought by 

 some to be the same as Paxillus flavidus, Berk., but it does not agree 

 well with the description of that species. Neither does it agree fully 

 with the characters of the genus Gomphidius. I do not find the pileus 

 viscid, nor the lamellae forked,, though they are venose- connected. 

 They do not readily separate from the pileus as in Paxillus. 



Russula virescens, Fr. According to the description of this species 

 the margin of the pileus should be even, but specimens sometimes 

 occur in which the margin is wholly or partly striate. The number 

 of forked and intermediate lamellae is also variable and the warts are 

 sometimes pale-brown instead of green. The color of the pileus is 

 generally grayish-green but it is frequently tinged with yellow. 



Panus stipticus, Bull. This usually occurs on trunks of deciduous 

 trees, but occasionally it is found on hemlock trunks. 



Lenzites betulina, Fr. Specimens of this species have been found on 

 hemlock trunks. Lenzites vialis also occurs both on frondose and 

 acerose trees, so that the division of the genus into two sections 

 depending on the character of the habitat is scarcely reliable. 



Polyporus igniarius, Fr. One specimen was found about one foot 

 broad and having seventeen strata of pores, thus indicating an age of 

 seventeen years. 



Polyporus pergamenus, Fr. The typical form of this species, accord- 

 ing to the description, has the pileus coriaceo-membranaceus, rigid, 

 tomentose, concentrically sulcate, white; the pores seriately placed, 

 pallescent and produced into very thin dentate plates. Its habitat is 

 said to be pine, and its locality Arctic America. The species, as now 

 understood, proves to be a very common and very variable one and in- 

 cludes several synonyms. In KaveuePs Fungi Car. Exsicc, Fasc. 1, 

 No. 13, Polyporus laceratus, Berk., is represented to be a synonym of 

 this species. Dr. Berkeley himself does not give it as a distinct species 

 in his Notices of North America Fungi, though it was founded on 

 specimens from New Orleans, from which we infer that he does not 

 regard it as a good species. According to the description it scarcely 



