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vatae, flexuosae hamataeve, hyalinae, 16-25 x 1-1.5 Pi secundunij 

 oblongae vel subfusiformes, hyalinae, vulgo binucleatae 8-12 x 2-3 

 Pj sporophores graciles, sporis aequales vel breviores. 



Picris echinoides L. 



Orient Point. September. R. Latham. 



Potamogeton richardsoni (Benn.) Rydb. 

 Lake Champlain and Oneida lake. August. Formerly reported 

 as a variety of Potamogeton p e r f o 1 i a t u s L. but now 

 classed as a distinct species. 



Psilocybe nigrella n. sp. 



PLATE III, FIG. 7-1 1 



Pileus thin, broadly convex or nearly plane, slightly umbonate, 

 hygrophanous, seal brown and shining when moist, even and ob- 

 scurely striate on the margin, raw umber or mummy brown when 

 the moisture has escaped ; lamellae thin, rather close, rounded be- 

 hind, adnexed, purple brown or seal brown, whitish on the edge ; 

 stem firm, rigid, equal, stuffed with a slender white pith, silky 

 fibrillose, whitish ; spores dark purplish brown, almost black, 

 ellipsoid, 10-12 x 6-8 p. 



Pileus 2.5-4 cm broad ; stem 3.5-7 cm long, 2-4 mm thick. 



Damp mossy ground in swamps. Karner, Albany co. October. 



Pileus tenuis, late convexus subplanusve, leviter umbonatus, hygro- 

 phanous, atrobrunneus, nitidus, levis, margineque obscure striatus 

 in conditione uda, umbrinus in siccitate; lamellae tenues, subcon- 

 fertae, adnexae, atrobrunneae, acie albidae; stipes firmus, rigidus, 

 aequalis, medulla alba f arctus, sericeo-fibrillosus, albidus ; sporae 

 purpureo-brunneae vel subatrae, ellipsoideae, 10-12 x 6-8 p. 



Puccinia epiphylla (L.) Wettst. 

 Living leaves of low spear grass, P o a annua L. Lyndon- 

 ville. September. C. E. Fairman. 



Ribes triste albinervium (Mx.) Fern. 



Colton hill swamp. Fine. August. 



This is closely related to Ribes v u 1 g a r e Lam., the common 

 garden currant, from which it may be separated by its more strag- 

 gling, partly decumbent habit and by the glands on the pedicels. 



