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mens were soon accompanied by the printed descriptions. We | 
shall return to this matter again ere long, and in t e meantime i 
shall be glad to receive further suggestions.—C. E. Dessey. 
REMARKABLE Fuscus Growru.—I have lately received from f 
Messrs. B. M. Everhart and W. T. Haines, of West Chester, Pa, 
a very curious growth, an account of which may be of interest 
This strange production is no doubt an abortive growth of the 7 
mycelium of some fungus unable to assume its normal form and i 
character for want of light and air. a | 
In the letter of Messrs. Everhart and Haines, accompany | 
the specimen, they say: “ About two years ago a gentleman % f 
this place, Dr. Warren, preparing to build a stable on his aes 4 
He 
out window or opcning of any sort, and consequently entirely 
dark. Some time afterwards, for the purpose of ventilation, a 
hole or trap door was cut through this floor, when it was eee 
ered that the under side of the floor was coated and festooned Witt 
the curious fungoid growth before mentioned. Here andt 
were hollow, bladder-like bodies six inches in diameter and 
least breath of air. The whole was very moist, with drops 
water standing òn it, and seemed to be enveloped in a mist. p 
tions of this curious growth taken out and hung in a dry 
near a hot stove had, in two days, shriveled to less than half 
original size, and were of a yellowish-white color, had a rather 
agreeable sweetish smell and adhered slightly to the fingers- 
shaking the dried mass fragments like snow flakes separated 
fell to the floor.” ; 
The specimens sent me some days ago have not changed m 
pearance since I received them. One of them consists © 
spongy, white, torn and ragged bundle like a much-worh’ 
cloth or bundle of white rags, more compact above where n ' 
gradually contracted into the suspending cord, which 1s about 1 
thick as one's fingér, tapering above to the size of a pipe stem | 
