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bridge with the expanded veil is nothing more than the fully developed 
P. duplicatus, and not the true P. indusiatus of more southern coun- 
tries. As to the specimens from New Haven, they certainly are not 
P. indusiatus nor P. duplicatus, nor can they be Corynites Curtisii, 
Berk., also found by Wright in Connecticut, which, although resem- 
bling them, has an imperforate apex. They are rather to be referred 
to Phallus Ravenellii, B. & C., to which also belongs No. 5619, C. 
Wright of Herb. Curtis. The New Haven specimens are four or five 
inches high, slender, and the surface of the pileus is not traversed by a 
coarsely toothed net-work, but is granular. The pileus is more or less 
bell-shaped, an inch or an inch and a half long, and there is a rudi- 
ment of a veil not more than a quarter as long hanging just underneath 
the pileus, and fastened at the top of the hollow spongy stipe. The 
volva is rather small. Phallus rubicundus, Bosc, differs in having the 
stipe red and the pileus grooved at the apex. 
Lycoperdon cyathiforme, Bosc, is one of the most striking species of 
the order found near Boston, and occasionally is half as large as a 
man’s head. We have also received the same fungus from Mr. C. C. 
Frost, of Brattleboro’, Vt., under the name of Lycoperdon albo-pur- 
pureum. 
Hymenomycetes.— The Lricacee of this country, as well as of 
Europe, are infested by a fungus, Hxobasium Vaccinii, Woronin, 
which produces deformities which vary with the plant on which it is 
growing. As might be expected, considering the number and variety 
of the Hricacee in New England, we have the fungus with us assum- © 
ing many different forms. ‘The common form of Europe abounds with 
us in June on Gaylussacia resinosa, the common whortleberry, and on 
the blueberries. We have also found it on cultivated species of Vac- 
cinium, growing in the Bussey green-house. The leaves become coy- 
ered with a white powder, and the young fruit and twigs are swollen, 
sometimes to three or four times their natural size, and are of a pleas- 
ing pink color, covered with a white powder. In this form of the 
fungus, conidia are very abundant, and basidiospores less so. Another 
form corresponding to the Hxobasidium Rhododendri of Fuckel, occurs 
on the leaves of Azalea viscosa, where it causes a peculiar disk-like or 
cup-like deformity, which has been described as Hxobasidium discoi- 
deum, Ellis.* The same fungus, when it occurs on the floral organs 
*“ Bulletin of Torrey Club,” Vol. V. No. 11. 
