dents of the fungi. Some of the conclusions reached would seem to admit of some argument, but time and discussion will doubtless settle the doubtful points. At present I am interested in some of the species considered as doubtful. A few of these have seemed to me to occur in my collecting grounds. Among these doubtful species, the one which was most of a shock is Mycena stylobates. A very interesting Mycena occurs at Asheville, which is doubtless the one on which the reports of Mycena stylobates have been based. It is very distinct, and has so many of the characters attributed to Quelet's species that I have always referred it there. Plate 4, f. I, which accompanies these notes, shows its characters fairly well. As I have found it, the pileus was 4-6 mm. broad, pale-gray in color, thin and membranous, campanulate, becoming expanded, striate to the disk, and bearing a few scattered hairs, which are plainly visible under a lens; gills free or nearly so, ventricose, distant; stipe 2-5 cm. long, filiform and fragile, glabrous, seated on a flat disk which is marked with distinct striations and fringed with a row of bristles; spores 6 X 3 ,u. The peculiar and striking feature is the base of the stipe. I have seen no other species which resembles it in this particular. In the figure, this feature can be distinctly seen. It will be seen that our plant answers the description very well except that the color as it occurs here is pale-gray and not white. Stevenson says of it, however, commonly wholly white, but