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Uredinopsis osmundae Magn. 

 Living or languishing fronds of cinnamon fern, Osmunda 

 cinnamomea. Near Malloryville, Tompkins co. August. 

 G. F. Atkinson. 



Viola amoena LeConte 

 Wet places. Common in hilly and mountainous districts. In 

 Flora of the State of New York this is united with V iola blanda, 

 but as the tendency at the present time is toward the separation 

 of closely related forms it seems best to restore this violet to its 

 original specific rank. 



Viola latiuscula Greene 



Light gravelly soil. Minerva. This species was found in flower 

 early in May. In our specimens the lower leaves have a slight 

 purplish tinge. 



Viola septentrionalis Greene 

 Borders of woods and grassy places. Warrensburg, Warren co., 

 and Minerva, Essex co. The northern blue violet was found in 

 flower the last week of May. Its lower leaves are small, reniform 

 or suborbicular, its upper ones are bluntly pointed and its sepals 

 are ciliate. 



Xyris montana Ries 

 Borders of White lake, Forestport, Oneida co. July. J. V. 

 Haberer. It also occurs in Cranberry marsh, Sandlake, Rensselaer 

 co. It was formerly thought to be a variety of X. flexuosa, 

 but it is now separated as a distinct species. 



Zygodesmus granulosus Pk. 



Decaying wood of poplar. East Schaghticoke. August. 



REMARKS AND OBSERVATIONS 

 Agaricus abruptus Pk. 



In his Monograph I, p. 348, Elias Fries described a mushroom 

 under the name Agaricus abruptus. In Hym. Eur., 

 p. 245, he placed this species in his subgenus Flammula, still 

 retaining for it the original name. In Sylloge the subgenus Flam- 

 mula, with many other subgenera of Fries, was given generic rank 

 and the name Agaricus abruptus was changed to 

 Flammula abrupt a, thus vacating the name Agaricus 

 abruptus and leaving it available for some other applica- 

 tion. But Rule 5 of what is known as the Rochester code 

 forbids the use of such names, and though this rule may not be 

 accepted in its present form by the coming international congress 



