430 BULLETIN OF THE BUSSEY INSTITUTION. 
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No. 23. — List of Fungi found in the Vicinity of Boston. By 
W. G. Faruow, Assistant Professor of Botany in Harvard 
University. | 
Tue following list makes.no pretension to completeness, as will be 
seen by the small number of species of Basidiomycetes and Ascomy- 
cetes reported. It is intended simply as a contribution to our knowl- 
edge of the fungi found in the neighborhood of Boston, of which 
our only sources of information are the papers by Mr. C. J. Sprague, 
published in the “ Proceedings of the Boston Society of Natural 
History,” March 5, 1856, and Jan. 6, 1858, and numbered references 
to the collections of Mr. C. J. Sprague, Mr. Dennis Murray, and the 
late Rey. J. L. Russell, in the “ Notices of North-American Fungi,” 
by the Rev. M. J. Berkeley, now in course of publication in Grevillea. 
Of the present list, the species have all come under our own observa- 
tion within a radius of a few miles of the Bussey Institute, or at 
Wood’s Hole, Mass., where the University summer course in crypto- 
gamic botany was given in the months of July and August, 1875. 
Occasionally, reference is made to a species from a more remote lo- 
cality. We have omitted the names of a large number of conidial 
forms which are known to be states of ascomycetous fungi, since one 
specific name is, of course, sufficient to indicate a whole series of forms. 
The nomenclature of the species of Myxomycetes has been made to 
correspond, as far as possible, with that adopted by Dr. J. T. Rosta- 
finski, in his work on that group. 
MYXOMYCETES. 
CERATIUM HYDNOIDES, A. & S. Newton; Wood’s Hole. Common. 
CERATIUM PORIOIDES, A. & S.. Wood’s Hole. 
LYCOGALA EPIDENDRON, Fr. Common near Boston. On stumps. 
TUBULINA CYLINDRICA, D.C. Newton. On pine stumps. 
CrRIBRARLA VULGARIS, Schrad. Newton. 
CRIBRARIA PURPUREA, Schrad. Eastport, Me. October, 1875. 
DICTYDIUM CERNUUM, Schrad. Newton. Rather common. 
RETICULARIA MUSCORUM, Fr. Eastport, Me. October, 1875. On 
stumps. 
STEMONITIS FUSCA, Roth. Common near Boston. 
STEMONITIS FERRUGINEA, Ehrb. Newton. Common. 
