1886.] 
THE BANDED-SPORE TEICIIIAS. 
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12. Iowa (E. W. Ilolway). Spores equally of the Tv. affinis and Tr. 
Jackii types ; elaters 4.5 to 5 mic. m. wide, minutely spinulose and the 
interspiral ridges very distinct, 
13. Ohio (A. P. Morgan), Spores largely of Tr. chrysosperma typo, 
with shallow, irregularly-meshed ridges, the balance passing into a Tr. 
affinis type, with few or many pits, as the width of the bands will per¬ 
mit ; elaters 6 mic. m. wide, irregularly spinulose and the interspiral 
ridges large and distinct. 
14. Adirondack Mts., N. Y. Spores typical of Tr. chrysosperma ; 
elaters 7.5 mic. m. wide, minutely but densely spinulose, elater ends va¬ 
rious, sometimes terminating with a short point, or bluntly without a 
point but bristling with the ends of the spirals, or with a very long, 
slender, smooth end three or four times the length of the diameter of the 
elater; interspiral ridges very numerous, crowded close together and 
irregular, not all parallel to the axis of the elater. 
Of these specimens. Nos. 13 and 14 are varieties of Tr. chrysosperma. 
Bull., No. 13 being a transitional form. All of the other numbers have, 
in the same sporangia, the pitted, banded spores characteristic of Tr. 
affinis and Tr. Jackii only, and elaters with the interspiral ridges char¬ 
acteristic of Tr. chrysosperma only. Other irregularities are also notice¬ 
able. In Nos. 4, 6 and 9, with spores of a pronounced Tr. affinis type, 
we have spinulose elaters, a characteristic of Tr. Jackii, and in Nos. 7 
and 8, also with spores of a Tr. affinis type, we have in the elaters the 
broad interspiral spaces belonging to Tr. Jackii. With such discrepan¬ 
cies in leading specific characteristics, I can only refer my specimens to Tr. 
affinis, De By., and Tr. Jackii, Rfki., provisionally, as I have not been 
able to obtain authenticated specimens of these species for comparison. 
The examination was made with a one-sixteenth Zeiss immersion objec¬ 
tive, which showed clearly and positively all the points noted. The external 
appearance of the sporangia of these Tnchias is sufficiently different to ena¬ 
ble one, with a little experience, to separate readily the pitted spore species 
from 2>. chiysosperma. The former cannot be distinguished from each 
other, without the aid of the microscope, with any degree of certainty. 
NEW SPECIES OF FUNGI FROM VARIOUS 
LOCALITIES. 
BY J. B. ELLIS AND B. M. EVERHART. 
A large proportion of the species here described were collected by the 
Rev. A. 15. Langlois, in Louisiana, mostly in Plaquemines county, not 
far from Baton Rouge. 
DACUYMYCES CORTICIOTDE6, E. & E., var. CANIGENA.— On scales 
of pine cones (P. rigida), Newlield, N. J., May, 1886. Orbicular, 
about I millim. diam., llattish, convex, centrally attached, pale yellow, 
