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Trametes odoratus Fr. 



Old trunks of spruce trees Adirondack Mts. 



Merulius poriistoides Fr. 



Old pine stumps. Forestburgh. Sept. 



Merulius bellus B. & C. 



Decaying wood. Tonawanda. Clinton. 



Irpex lacteus Fr. 



Dead branches and stumps of frondose trees. Forest- 

 burgh. Sept. 

 This is thought by some to be a variety of Irpex sinuosus. 



Stereum balsameum n. sp. 



Orbicular or confluent, resupinate, rather thick and firm ; 

 slightly tawny-tomentose beneath ; the margin free, thin, 

 whitish ; hymenium brown, uneven, sometimes concentri- 

 cally zoned, stained dark red or purplish where bruised, the 

 stains at length changing to black. 



Bark of dead balsam trees, Abies balsamea. Adirondack 

 Mts. Aug. 



By the confluence of individuals patches several inches in 

 diameter are sometimes formed. In the dried specimens the 

 hymenium is more or less cracked. 



Stereum versiforme B. & G. 



Dead branches. Forestburgh. Sept. 



Cortioium calceum Fr. 



Decaying wood and dead branches. North Greenbush. 

 Oct. 



Cortioium cremoricolor B. & O. 



Spruce wood. Indian Lake. July. The areolae in our 

 specimens are small but quite distinct. 



Cortioium lilacinofuscum B. & G. 

 Old fence posts. Greenbush. 



Ctphella Candida n. sp. 



Cups scattered or gregarious, minute, obconic, nearly or 

 quite sessile, externally tomentose, soft, white, sometimes 

 deflexed. 



Dead stems of ferns, Osmunda cinnamomea. Forest- 

 burgh. Sept. 



