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ly branched from the base, nearly glabrous, and with scattered 

 bristles; leaves thin, the lower orbicular-, the middle ones rhombic- 

 ovate, and the uppermost ovate-lanceolate, mostly acute, and all very 

 coarsely and incisely toothed, 3-4 inches long on very slender petioles 

 two-thirds as long ;. stipules small, lanceolate; racemes slender, 

 nearly equalling the petioles. 



This remarkable nettle I first saw in the Mimbres Mountains of 

 New Mexico, in thg month of May, 1877, Again, early this, year I 

 found dead stems of it, fully six feet high, in canyons of the Mogol- 

 lones in the sariie Territory. Still later, in the herbarium of Mr. 

 Lemmon at Oakland, I observed dried specimens of very young 

 plants, collected in the Santa Cataline Mountains of Arizona in the 

 spring of 1880. Mr. Rusby has more recently sent me, from the 

 Mogollones, Specimens in flower, collected in August of this year. 

 It appears to be dioecious ; at least my specimens show only male 

 flowers. 



Zygadenus porrifolius. — Bulb oblong, an inch or more long, 

 with white outer coats ; stem 2 feet high ; leaves thin, pale, some- 

 what glaucous, 2^-6 lines wide and a foot or more long ; raceme 

 simple, or below sparingly branched, rather loosely flowered ; bracts 

 ovate-lanceolate, green and glaucous; pedicels -J-i inch long; 

 flowers small, nodding; perianth adnate, and persistent upon the 

 capsules until the ripening of the fruit ; segments broad, 3 lines long, 

 greenish, none of them unguiculate of much contracted at base ; 

 gland elongated, truncate or obcordate ; capsule 6-8 lines long. 



Mogollon Mountains, near the summits, 1881. The pale and 

 soft, garlic-like leaves, and the last season's dead stems bearing 

 empty capsules, were observed by myself last April The specimen, 

 in flower, from which the description is drawn, was collected by Mr. 

 Rusby in August. 



119. New Ascomycetous Fungi.* 



By J. B. Ellis. 



Peziza (Dasyscypha) Meleagris. — Sessile among the loosened 

 fibres of the wood, brownish-purple, spherical at first and tardily ex- 

 panding, .003' in diameter, clothed externally and the margin 

 fringed with purplish, sparingly-septate, minutely-roughened hairs, 

 which are attenuated and lighter colored above so that the marginal 

 fringe appears nearly white; disk dull white; asci sessile, oblong- 

 cylindrjcal, .oo2'x.ooo25' ; paraphyses stout, 2-3-septate and abruptly 

 pointed above ; sporidia simple, hyaline, oblong, .0003'x.oooi', mostly 

 collected in the upper part of the asci. 



On weather-beaten wood. May. (No. 71.) 



Peziza (Dasyscypha) cenangiqides. — Sessile, urceolate then 

 expanded, ,003' in diameter, clothed externally and the margin 

 fringed with brown, rough, septate hairs ; disk dull white ; asci cyl- 

 indrical, .oo25'x.Goo25'; paraphyses stout, septate below, scarcely 

 thickened above, obtuse ; sporidia 8, fusiform, hyaline, straight or 

 slightly curved, and mostly narrowed at one end, .0006'- 0007 long 



* Collected in Pleasant Valley, Utah, by S. J. Harkness during the spring 

 and summer of 1881. (Station about 6,000 feet above the level of the sea.) 



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