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timeters) long, J-J inch (8-18 millimeters) thick; equal or slightly 
tapering upward, spongy within, rarely hollow, colored like the pileus, 
sometimes a little paler; spores, ^ 0 -q inch (8 //) in diameter; taste acrid. 
Ground in woods.”—Greig. September. 
“Allied very closely to R.fcetens , from which it differs by the absence 
of any marked odor and the margin not so widely striate. I have never 
seen it caespitose; not growing in cleared lands.”—Peck. Massachusetts, 
Frost; Wisconsin, Bundy. 
24. “It. Morgani, Sacc. Sylloge, Yol. Y, p. 468. ( R. incarnata , Mor¬ 
gan.) Pileus 3-1 inches (7.5-10 centimeters) broad, fleshy, firm; then 
very fragile, convexo-nmbilicate; then expanded and depressed, moist, 
sordid, floceulose; the margin acute, not striate; the flesh thin, white. 
Stem about 2 inches (5 centimeters) long, § inch (18 millimeters) thick, 
solid, nearly equal, white. Gills adnate, distant, broad, and alternate 
ones dimidiate or mostly very short, white, then pale flesh color. Spores 
white, oblique, apiculate, smooth; 8-5.5//. 
“ Taste mild. On the ground, under beech trees. July, August. The 
pileus is at first of a sordid color, brownish on the disk. The whole 
plant when mature takes on a sordid, fleshy hue, and becomes exceed¬ 
ingly fragile.”—Morg. 
Originally published as R. incarnata by Prof. A. P. Morgan in The 
Mycologic Flora of the Miami Yalley, Ohio, (Journ. Ginn. Soc. Nat. 
Hist., April, 1883), but the title being preoccupied it was renamed as 
above. 
25. “ R. variata, Miss M. E. Banning, Bot. Gaz., Jan., 1881. 
Pileus 3-4 inches (7.5-10 centimeters) broad, at first globose, then 
expanded and centrally depressed, smooth, viscid, variable in color and 
even variegated brownish or pinkish purple, with at times a cast of 
green ; epidermis peels easily ; the extreme under margin edged with a 
delicate line of purple; flesh white, unchanging. Gills white, adnexed, 
narrow, forked, close. Stem nearly 2 inches (5 centimeters) long, ^ 
inch (18 millimeters) thick, white, smooth, more or less tapering at 
the base, spongy within ; spores white, echinulate, 7.5 by 7.5//. Taste 
acrid. In woods near Baltimore. July.”—Ban. 
(To be continued.) 
A NEW MUCR0N0P0RUS. 
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(Plate XII.) 
By J. B. Ellis and B. T. Galloway. 
Mucronoporus Everhartii. On living trunks of Quercus nigra , 
around Newfield, N. J. Found also by Mr. Everhart*at West Chester, 
Pa., and sent from northern New Jersey by Prof. T. G. Gentry. Pileus 
dimidiate, zonate unguliform, broadly attached behind, convex above, 
8130—No. 3-3 
