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spaces venose. The stem is sometimes white, but generally it is 
colored like the pileus or a little paler. There are several species 
which have the pileus similarly colored, among which are R. purpurea 
Gill., R. Queletii Gill., R. expallens Gill, and R. drimeia Cke., but from 
all these, which are acrid, it is distinct by its mild taste. Sometimes 
the margin of the pileus fades with age and then the appearance is 
very similar to that of R. depallens Fr. as shown by the figures in 
Illust. of British Fungi, plate 1021. But that species has a viscid 
pileus and the stem varies from white to cinereous. It has not the 
red or purplish hues of the stem of our plant. 
Hydnum albidum Pk. 
Port Jefferson. July. This fungus has been tested and found to 
be edible. 
Hydnum Caput-ursi Fr. 
This species is not rare in the Adirondack forests. It grows on old 
trunks of deciduous trees either prostrate or standing and sometimes 
attains a large size, being six or eight inches high and nearly as 
broad, with aculei an inch long. Small forms have shorter teeth and 
might easily be mistaken for H. coralloides if not carefully observed. 
I have eaten of it and find it very good, but scarcely as well-flavored 
as H. coralloides. 
Thelephora laciniata Pers. 
A form of this species in which the margin of the pileus is entire 
is not rare. To distinguish it from the typical form it might be 
called variety Integra. 
Stereum spadiceum plicatum n. var. 
Pileus narrow, laterally confluent, much crisped or folded. Pros¬ 
trate trunks of oak, Quercus alba. Menands. August. 
Anthurus borealis Burt. 
In an asparagus bed. Sherruck, Delaware county. August. 
F. B. Southwick. 
This is the second time and the second locality in our State in 
which this very rare and interesting phalloid fungus has been found. 
Successive crops of it appeared in this place during an interval of 
several weeks. 
