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Some New Species of Fungi 
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pressed, thin, soft, tough, not striate. Gills sordid white, or in 
age pale yellow, very narrow, 1-1.5 mm., converging to point of 
attachment of pileus to the wood, crowded. Basidia clavate, 
20-25x4-5 /a, 4-spored. Spores oval to subglobose, smooth, 
white granular, 2-3 p. Cystidia numerous, short lanceolate to 
fusoid, thickwalled, hyaline or sordid yellowish, arising below 
the subhvmenium, exposed portion of tip rough, 45 x 10-14 l J - 
Cystidia on edge of gills smaller and some of them capitate as 
in some species of Galera . Subhymenium of irregular cells, 
4-6 p. in diameter. Tram a of gills of very irregular flexous inter¬ 
woven threads. Trama of pileus remarkable, of four layers; inner 
layer about half the thickness of the pileus, compact, floccose 
interwoven; second layer, open, slender, distant, palisade threads 
in a gelatinous matrix; third layer compact, thin ; fourth and outer 
layer erect tomentose. On rotting wood. On decaying bass 
wood limb, Warner’s Glen, Cayuga Lake, Ithaca, N. Y., June 30, 
1901, G. F. A., C. U. herb., No. 6083; on rotting log, McGowan's 
woods, Ithaca, N. Y., August 5, 1901, C. O. Smith, C. U. herb.. 
No. 7620; rotten wood, west Cayuga Lake, July 19, 1902, C. H. 
Kauffman, C. U. herb., No. 9841. 
Pluteus flavofuligineus Atkinson n. sp.—Plants scat¬ 
tered, 5-7 cm. high, pileus 4-5 cm. broad, stems 4-6 mm. in thick¬ 
ness. Pileus oval to convex, sometimes slightly umbonate, very 
thin, chrome yellow with a smoky tinge and with smoky radiating 
lines which anastomose more or less near the center. In young 
plants surface darker, minutely tomentose from numerous fusoid, 
acuminate, straight or curved cells containing a dull pigment 
which gives the smoky color to the cap. Margin not striate, 
flesh thin. Gills free, rounded at both ends, 3-5 mm. broad, not 
very crowded, deep flesh color. Basidia clavate, 30-35x6-71 p, 
4-spored. Spores oval, smooth, colored like the gills, 5-7 x 4-6 p. 
Cystidia numerous, fusoid, ends blunt, hyaline, 80-100 x 12-20 p. 
Subhymenium of rounded cells 6-10 p . Trama of gills of 
cylindrical cells converging as they descend in the gills. Stem 
pale pink to flesh color, smooth, solid, flesh pink, becoming fistu- 
lose. On very rotten wood, woods, Coy Glen, Ithaca, N. Y., 
August 6, 1901, G. F. A., C. U. herb., No. 7619. 
Polyporis holocyaneus Atkinson n. sp.— Plants gregarious 
and somtimes several with the bases joined, 5-7 cm. high, pileus 
2-6 cm. broad, stems 4-8 mm. in thickness. Entire plants deep 
blue when fresh, the tubes lighter colored, and somewhat iride¬ 
scent when fresh, giving to the unaided eye somewhat the appear¬ 
ance of a Hydnum. In drying the color becomes much 
duller, the cap dull brown to dull reddish brown or in 
younger specimens with a tinge of blue or purple, the 
stem passing through similar changes but remaining 
darker, while the tubes quite lose the blue color and 
