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nal specific name in combination. The only other specimen I seem 

 to have is one collected by Bresadola in fir woods near Trent in 

 October, 1897. The following notes were made from the fresh 

 specimens sent by Miss Blackford: 



Dry when received but evidently slightly sticky when moist, vir- 

 gate with delicate fibrils, uniformly avellaneous or slightly darker, 

 top-shaped when young, slightly umbonate at times, cespitose, 6-7 

 cm. broad; context thick, pure-white, unchanging, taste sweet, 

 nutty, odor becoming mealy in drying; lamellae short-decurrent, 

 distant, very broad in front, tapering behind, mostly simple, white 

 or slightly dirty-white, never yellowish, entire on the edges ; stipe 

 slightly tapering downward, subglabrous, white or slightly avel- 

 laneous, fistulose to stuffed, 6 cm. long, 1 cm. or more thick above ; 

 veil none. 



W. A. Murrill 



An Addition to the Distribution of a Rare Fungus 



Early in the morning, October 23, 1921, I started with some of 

 my first-year students on a walk to Hueston's Wood, five miles 

 north of Oxford, Ohio. We reached the wood at daylight, and 

 within a half hour Miss Grace Townsend, a keen-eyed freshman, 

 spied something rising from the soil which brought forth a burst 

 of enthusiasm. On reaching the spot, I decided at once that she 

 had discovered something which had escaped notice hitherto, 

 though I have botanized through this 200-acre stretch of beech 

 wood with my students for fifteen years, on five different occasions 

 remaining in camp for ten or twelve days and botanizing vigorously 

 every day. The globose peridium, a centimeter and a half in 

 diameter, expanded abruptly from the top of a somewhat slender 

 stipe, which was five centimeters high and a half centimeter in 

 diameter. The outer wall of the peridium was free from the stipe 

 in a manner wholly unknown to me, while from the top of this 

 peridium there arose a peculiar little chimney-like ostiole, which 

 was a millimeter high and a little more than a millimeter in diam- 

 eter. The peridium was a pale brownish, and the stipe was darker 

 with a reddish cast. In short, the whole appearance was such as 

 to excite the curiosity of an experienced mycologist, accustomed 



