NEW LITERATURE. 5?^ 



This Report, (for 1883) of twenty-one pages, continues the account of 

 the New York species of Agaricus. In the 35th, Report a key and 

 descriptions of the species of Lepiota were given, and in this number the 

 species of Psalliota are similarly treated. One species is new to the lit- 

 erature of science, namely Agaricus Rodmani, Peck. It is intermediate 

 between A. campestris and A. arvensis, resembling the former in shape 

 and size of the pileus, and the latter in color of the pileus and the 

 lamellje. 



Cragin, F. W.— 'First contribution to the Catalogue of the Hymeno- 

 mycetes and Gasteromycetes of Kansas in Bull. Washburn College 

 Laboratory Xat. Hist., p. 33, continued from p. 28. 

 Of the forty-eight species enumerated, the following are proposed as 

 new : Fhallus collaris, Cragin ; P. purpuratus, Cragin ; Simblum rubes- 

 cens, Gerard, var. Kansensis, Cragin ; Lycoperdon rubro-flavum, Cragin ; 

 L. tabacinum, Ellis ; L. sigillatum, Cragin ; L. rima-spinosum, Cragin : 

 L. molle, Pers., var. occidentalis, Cragin; Geaster turbinatus, Cragin i 

 and Bovista cinerea, Ellis. 



CRAGm, F. '-Second contribution to the catalogue of the Hymen- 

 omycetes and Gasteromyces of Kansas;" 1. c. p. 65. 



A list of twenty determined species is given in this paper one of 

 which is new, as follows : 



CoRTiciUM VELLEREU3I, ElUs & Cragin.— Dirty white, texture loose, 

 floccose, margin byssoid. Spores abundant, globose, 4—5 fJ- in diameter, 

 borne on short, stout, sub-clavate basidia. 



Cragin, F. W.— 'A New Genus and Species of Tremelline Fungus,'' 

 1. c. p. 82. 



''Ceracea, Cragin. — Fungi waxy (at first gelatinous ?), very thin 

 investing the host as with a varnish ; sporophores borne on the ends of' 

 the filaments, mostly bifurcate, each ramus bearing a single non-septate 

 spore. Blending characters of Dacrymyces, Tremella, and Hymenula. 



''For the species, Ceracea vernicosa, Cragin, may be added the follow- 

 ing: Translucent to opaque, becoming brown, and then here and there 

 blackish . spores elliptical and apparently formed by constriction from 

 the apices of the basidia. 



"The plant was found completely clothing immature specimens of 

 Polyporus." 



ERRATA. 



Journal of Mycology, Vol. I, p. 6, in second line of description of 

 Ramularia Astragali, omit "(3—6 mm.) ;" and in third line below, for 

 ''8—4/^-" read 3—4/-^. 



On same page, ninth line from the bottom, for "spores" read sent. 



In some copies, the last sentence on p. 39 is defective. It should 

 read as follows : 



Conidia oblong or cylindrical, .1—3 septate, colorless, 20—30 x 7—8 . 



