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Clavaria spathtjlata n. sp. 



Simple, pale yellow; club compressed, spatulate, taper- 

 ing into the slender slightly furfuraceous stem. 

 Plant scarcely more than two lines high. 



Dead branches of hickory trees, Carya alba. Greenbush. 

 Oct. (Plate 2, figs. 20 and 21.) 

 The color is like that of Spathularia flamda. 



Typhula gyrans Fr. 



Decaying leaves, twigs and stems in damp places. Sand- 

 lake, Portville, Forestburgh and Adirondack Mts. Aug. 

 and Sept. 



Typhula filictna n. sp. 



White ; club thickened, obovate or elliptical, obtuse, 

 erect ; stem rather stout, short, pubescent, usually slightly 

 thickened toward the base, arising from a chestnut-colored 

 sclerotium. 



Plant 1"- 2" high. 



Dead stems of ferns, Osmunda cinnamomea, in damp 

 places. Forestburgh. Sept. (Plate 1, figs. 29 and 30.) 



This is a smaller but comparatively stouter plant than the 

 preceding, easily distinguished by its shorter club and 

 stem. 



Tremella enata B. & C. 



Dead oak branches. Forestburgh. Sept. 



Tremella stipitata n. sp. 



Head small, tremelloid, subglobose or irregular, glabrous, 

 more or less uneven with gyrose convolutions, yellow, often 

 changing to orange or reddish-brown in drying ; stem dis- 

 tinct, firm, dry, solid, nearly equal, yellow, often tinged 

 with brown at the base, rarely throughout its whole extent, 

 sometimes divided at the top into two branches, each bear- 

 ing a head ; spores subelliptical, with a slight oblique api- 

 culus at one end, .00033' long. 



Plant 5"- 10" high. 



Decaying wood in swamps. Forestburgh. Sept. (Plate 

 2, figs. 22 and 23.) 



The texture of the stem is very unlike that of the head. 

 The color of the stem generally fades to whitish or pallid in 

 drying. The stem is sometimes slightly recurved at the top 

 and appears to penetrate the receptacle as in the genus 



