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The peculiar color of this minute species renders it an 
attractive object. 
Peziza (Mollisia) planodisca P,&C. Cups minute, 
sessile, whitish, the disk plane or slightly convex, obliterating 
the margin; asci short; spores crowded or biseriate, subfusi- 
form, .0003°—.00035‘ long. 
Dead leaves. of grass, Andropogon scoparius. Nov. 
Helotium albopunetum Pk. Cups very minute, 
scattered, white, the ‚disk soon plane or slightly concave, 
margin generally distinct; asci eylindrical; spores biseriate, 
oblong, narrow, generally binucleate, .0006‘—.0007° long. 
Fallen beech leaves in woods. Aug. 
This is an exceedingly minute. speeies. In drying it 
acquires a yellowish tinge, and it is then scarcely visible to 
the Naksa eye. The stem is so short that the plant appears 
sessile. 
Hx&matomyces orbicularis Pk. About one line 
in diameter, sessile, pulvinate, orbieular, subtremelloid, 
gyrose-convolute, blackish-brown, minutely dotted with rufous 
particles, as is also the moist pallid or subrufous spot on 
which it is seated; asci narrowly elavate, subacute; spores 
oblong-fusiform, simple, .0006‘—.0007‘ long, .00015 broad; 
paraphyses numerous, filiform. 
Decaying chestnut wood. Oct. 
Dermatea phyllophila Pk. Cups minute, suborbi- 
cular, often with a flexuous margin, dry, somewhat fibrous 
in texture, brownish and slightly hairy externally, erumpent, 
surrounded and partly concealed by the ruptured epidermis, 
sometimes throwing off a fragment of it, when moist, ex- 
panded and revealing a plane pallid or dingy-white disk; 
asci oblong-clavate, obtuse, sessile; spores broadly elliptical, 
nearly colorless, .0003°—.00035' long, .0002'—.00025‘ broad, 
generally containing a large shining nucleus; paraphyses 
thiekened above, often a little longer than the asci. 
Lower surface of balsam. leaves while yet on the tree. 
Sept. 
TER Xanthoxyli Pk. Cups densely tufted, 
minute, often irregular from mutual compression, brownish- 
lilac, externally and on the margin whitish with a villose 
pruinosity, disk plaue or slightly concave; asci short, clavate; 
spores erowded, simple, slightly eurved, subeylindrical, ob- 
tuse, colorless. - 
Dead branches of priekly ash, Xanthoxylum ‚America- 
num. Oct, ni 
Cenangium Cassandr& Pk. : Oblong or bysteriiformn, 
erumpent, closely surrounded by the ruptured epidermis, 
