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• The present season has been exceptionally early and good for 
fungi of all kinds, owing to the fact that the frost was out of the 
ground much earlier than usual and the rains have been heavy and 
frequent. Work on the local fungi by Dr. IMurrill has been con- 
tinuous and many interesting forms, some of them new, have been 
collected, described, and figured. Dr. Seaver has not only ob- 
tained many interesting discomycetes in the vicinity of New York ^ 
City, but has spent several weeks collecting about Portland, Con- 
necticut. y 
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A New IMephitic Claudopus 1 
Claudopus mephiticus sp. nov. ^ 
Pileus eccentric, convex to nearly plane, somewhat depressed 
at the center, cespitose, 2.5-5 broad ; surface dry, glabrous, 
slightly concentrically sulcate, greenish-white when young, dull- 
white or yellowish-white when old, margin concolorous, undu- 
late ; context white, with a very decided mephitic or garlic odor 
and taste ; lamellae sinuate, subdistant, broad, slightly serrate on 
the edges, white, becoming rose-colored at maturity ; spores an- 
gular, rose-colored, uniguttulate, 9 X 7 I stipe short, subcylindric, 
very eccentric, solid, pruinose, white, 1-1.5 cm. long, 4-6 mm. 
thick. 
Type collected on fallen dead branches in Minnehaha Park, 
Minneapolis, Minnesota, July 30, 1915, by Mrs. M. W. Smith. 
Complete descriptive notes were made from the fresh specimens 
by Dr. Mary S. Whetstone, who sent me a copy of them with 
some of the specimens under her accession number 60. The 
species seems nearest to Claudopus depluens, but is much larger j 
and has a very decided mephitic or garlic odor both in the fresh j 
and dried state. Claudopus nidulans is said to have a similar 
odor, but it must be much less decided and, furthermore, the addi- 
tional charm of conspicuously angled spores is entirely lacking. 
W. A. IMurrill. ' 
Notes on Agaricus reticeps Mont. 
An excellent specimen of this plant was sent me in July, 1914, 
by the late Dr. Lewis Sherman, of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, and I 
was able to make a careful study of it before it had entirely dried. 
