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masses work of coarse, purplisli-brown, branching threads 12 to 15/*. 
thick, which send ont on all sides free, snb-dichotomously branched, sub- 
undulate arms tapering gradually nearly to a point and more or less dis- ■ 
tiuctly granular-roughened or occasionally snb-tuberculose. Mycenas * 
trim corium, Desv., of which, as shown by a comparison with authentic 
specimens M. spinulosum, Pk., is a synonym, has the capillitinm of the 
same type only spinulose. This species is really only a Bovista with 
spinulose capillitinm, and if the genus Mycenastrum is to be abandoned 
must fall into Bovista and not into Scleroderma , which differsin its thick, 
leathery peridium and different capillitium. If Bovista pila is to be 
placed in Scleroderma it is difficult to see why B. higrescens and B. 
plumbea should not go there also. Nor is Mycenastrum Ohiense , E. & 
M., any more at home here, though it is not so easy to say just where it 
does properly belong, having, as it does, the sterile base of Lycoperdon 
with the capillitinm of Bovista I would leave Bovista pila , B. & C., 
where it is and make Mycenastrum a subgenus of Bovista , or if retained 
as a genus (which is perhaps preferable) restrict it to species with a 
spiny capillitium. 
On page 53 of the volume cited we find another species to which sev¬ 
eral synonyms must be attached. (Sec S. Schulzer in Hedwigia, 1883, 
p. 43.) Secotium Warnei , Pk., Columnaria , Schulz., and Secotium Thunii. 
Schulz, are the same as Secotium acuminatum (Mont.) Tui. 
This perhaps is not to be considered as a fault in the editor of the 
Sylloge, as this work aims only to give published descriptions; but 
without explanation one would suppose three distinct species where 
there is really but one. 
Lycoperdon lepidopliorum , E. & E., placed by Dr. De Toni in Bovista , 
we consider a good Lycoperdon, though not mentioned by Mr. Massee in 
his monograph of that genus. The deciduous scales correspond to the 
deciduous spines in some other species of Lycoperdon and are not to be 
considered as an outer peridium. The true peridium which is exposed 
when the outer scaly covering falls away is very thin and fragile and 
soon disappears. 
SOME NEW SPECIES OF HYMENOMYCETOUS FUNGI. 
By J. B. Ellis and Benj. M. Everhart. 
Inocybe pallidipes, E. & E. (N. A. F. 2102.) On the ground, under 
filbert trees, September and October, 1887 and 1888. 
Pileus conic-campanulate, about l cm high, finally expanding and uni- 
bonate, 2 to 3 cin across, light brown, fibrose-squamose, margin subrimose, 
disk innate-squamose or subrimose squamose. Lamelhe broadly at¬ 
tached with a strong decurrent tooth, ascending at first, then ventricose, 
scarcely crowded, rather broad (3 nnn ), pale, becoming light watery cin- 
