64 Rhodora [APRIL 
SPATHULARIA. 
13. SPATHULARIA CLAVATA (Schaeff.) Sacc. Fructifications 3-6 cm. 
high, compressed, obovate ; ascigerous portion bright yellow, obtuse or 
cleft at the apex, decurrent down opposite sides of the stem, margin 
crisped : stem white or whitish, glabrous; spores finally multiseptate, 
50-65 x 212—3 p. — S. flavida Pers. (Fig. 7.) 
Very common, usually in pine woods. Newfane (C. D. Howe) ; 
Ripton and Middlebury (Avr), August 21, 28, and September 9. 
Specimens from the Middlebury collection were distributed in 
Fungi Columbiani, No. 1213. 
SPATHULARIA RUGOSA Pk. Rep. N. Y. Mus. 50: 118, has been recently separated 
from S. clavata on account of rugose stem and shorter spores 40-60 x 2 u; its form and 
coloration are the same. 
I4. SPATHULARIA VELUTIPES Cke. & Farlow. Form and size as in 
SS. clavata, but ascigerous portion is tawny yellow and stem minutely 
velvety, dark brown; spores 55-60 x 11% u. (Fig. 6.) 
On mossy trunks in damp woods, Lake Willoughby (Farlow); on 
mossy log, Lake Dunmore, and on ground in spruce and pine woods, 
Abby Pond and Middlebury (Zw7/). August 17, 28 and September 20. 
VIBRISSEA. 
15. VIBRISSEA CIRCINANS (Pers.) Hazsl. Fructifications gregarious, 
2—4 cm. high ; ascigerous portion pileate, pale yellowish flesh-color or 
yellowish, under surface concave, minutely wrinkled, the ridges running 
down the apex of the stem; stem pallid or reddish, pulverulent, gla- 
brous ; spores finally multiseptate, 50—60 x 2 p. (Figs. 8-8c.) — Leota 
circinans Pers.; Cudonta circinans (Pers). Fr. 
Burlington (Z. Æ. Jones) ; on ground in pine woods, Middlebury 
(Burt). September 20. 
Specimens from the Middlebury collection were distributed in Ellis 
& Ev. N. A. Fungi, No. 3533. 
16. ViBRISSEA LUTEA Pk.  Fructifications gregarious, 112—212 cm. 
high, yellow; ascigerous portion subglobose, with margin slightly 
lobed, inflexed ; stem nearly equal, solid, glabrous, a little more highly 
colored than the ascigerous portion, longitudinally wrinkled when dry ; 
spores 72 x 2%p (80-90 X 2124 Massee) ; paraphyses with spirally 
curved tips in my specimens. 
On rotting beech leaves in moist wooded ravine, S. Lincoln Notch 
(Burt) , September 2. 
Our specimens have been seen by Mr. Peck and the determination 
authenticated. 
VIBRISSEA TRUNCORUM Fr. has been found in New York, Massachusetts, and New 
Hampshire and probably occurs in Vermont. It is an aquatic fungus, growing on 
submerged, decaying wood, branches and leaves, and attaining its best development 
in mountain streams. It is 1-2 cm. high; ascigerous portion deep orange-red; stem 
minutely velvety or squamulose; spores 200 x I p. 
