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State Mus. Nat. Hist.
Albany, Oct. 14th 1881

My Dear Sir;

The specimens you
send belong to a species of fungus
first seen by me in a dried pressed
specimen sent me by Mr. Warne
from Chicago. I gave a very
poor description of it in Torrey
Bulletin Vol. VI p. 77 1876 under
the name Lycoperdon Warnei,
noticing at the time that it was
not a very good Lycoperdon.
I afterwards received some small
specimens, apparently of the same thing,
from Wisconsin, but they had a
distinct stem which led me to believe
it a Podaxon. But in Podaxon
there should be filaments in the