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JOURNAL OF MYCOLOGY. 



If a sketch cannot be made, then next in importance to the color of the 

 spores is the color of the specimen, its form, size, etc. In another paper 

 I will give a synopsis for the study and description of an Agaric. 



The aids to the study of the Agaricini are, as in the other classes, 

 chiefly foreign, while the descriptions of the native species are scattered 

 in various publications, some of them inaccessible to the student ; so 

 that in reference to many species he is obliged to depend upon the 

 frendly aid of some specialist. The text-book covering the most species 

 is the Hymenomycetes Europsei of Fries, WTitten in Latin. Cook's Hand- 

 book of British Fungi is an excellent treatise in English and is now in 

 course of republication. The reports of the New York State Museum of 

 ^^atural History from the twenty-third to the thirty-fourth inclusive, 

 contain the most important publications on Fungi that have yet been 

 made in this country ; they are the work of the most accomplished 

 American mycologist. Prof. Chas. H. Feck. The Illustrations of the 

 British Fungi by Dr. M. C. Cooke are invaluable in the study of the 

 Agaricini ; they are now in course of publication, and twenty eight parts 

 have been issued, not yet completing the genus Agaricus. 



NEW FUNGI. 



BY J. B ELLIS A B. M. EVERHART. 



Feziza dine^iasporioides, E. & E.— Attached by a central point, 

 black, bristly, minute, consisting of a basal membrane of cellulose-fibrose 

 structure, with a subfimbriate margin and subtended by long (300—400 /->-). 

 black, spreading, bristle-like hairs, the whole much resembling a minute 

 Dinemasporiiim. Asci 90—100 x 8—10 /^-, gradually narrowed to the base. 

 Paraptiyses filiform ; sporidia also filiform, multinucleate, yellowish or 

 nearly hyaline, i— f as long as the asci. 



On basal sheaths of dead Andropogon, ^^ewfield, N. J., Oct. 1884. 



Hypocrea digitata, E. & E.— Stroma yellowish, digitate, radiating 

 from a central point and dividing into numerous (2 mm. in diam.), semi- 

 cylindrical, finger-like lobes closely appressed to and surrounding the 

 branch and extending longitudinally about 5 cm. Ferithecia numerous, 

 globose, small, with hyaline contents and black, slightly projecting ostiola. 

 Asci cylindrical, 80—90 long. Sporidia crowded or overlapping, oblong, 

 subhyaline, 1-septate, granular, slightly curved, 20—26 x 6—8 fJ-. 



On a dead limb, at the ''Xotch" in the White Mountains, ^f. H., 

 Sept. 1884. Miss S. Minns. 



