THE FUNGI OF NEW BRUNSWICK. 
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Clavaria fumosa Pers. Smoky in color. Ill smelling. 
Lycoperdon cepaeforme Bull. 
Trametes abietinus. On dead fir. 
Lycoperdon Wrightii (?) [I judge it is what Morgan has taken for h. 
Wrightii.— C.G.L.] 
Helvella lacunosa Apzel. Cap thin, black. 
Helotium citrina. 
Thelephora terrestris Ehrb. 
Peziza acetabulum Linn. Greyish-white when fresh, becoming black 
on drying. 
Peziza badia Pers. Of a rich brown color. Somewhat transparent. 
Fuligo septica. The Fuligoes are the largest slime moulds. 
Fuligo ochracea Peck. 
Pilacre Petersii Engler & Prantt. (Having only conidial spores). 
Lycologa epidendrum. (Resembling a puff ball, but belonging to the 
Myxomycetes) . 
Corticium amorphum Fr. 
Corias spongiosa (fide Patouillard). 
Leotia lubrica Pers. Cap olive-yellow, slimy. 
Leotia chlorocephala Schweinitz. Cap greenish, slimy. 
Plants previously reported 286 
Additions named above 35 
Total 321 
SFf | The distrust and suspicion with which many of the fungi are looked 
upon show that more attention should be given to them, to educate popular 
opinion in favor of a class of plants that have been much abused and 
maligned. The presence of vast numbers of toadstools of every form and 
color in our woods and fields every year, especially in September and October , 
is a source of curiosity to those people who kick them over and desire of 
you the information whether such and such a plant is a “mushroom” or a 
“toadstool.” Some there may be who, naturally observant, have found 
in the despised toadstool a beautiful and complicated structure. They 
recognize among the higher fungi an agaric by its gills, a polyporus or boletus 
by its pores, a hydnum by its spines, a morel by the fluted folds of its cap,, 
or a puff-ball by its spherical or balloon-like shape. But you may count 
on the fingers of one hand probably those in Canada, outside of the Natural 
History Survey, who have attempted the serious study of the higher fungi , 
while still fewer have attempted the “Imperfect Fungi,” as they are termed, 
which are so destructive as parasites on cultivated plants. — G. U. Hay \The 
Study of Canadian Fungi. Trans. R. S. C. Vol. x, p. 139. 
