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.0002' long. Resembles P. virginea^ Fr., but that is whiter and 

 taller^ with capitate hairs and lance-pointed paraphyses, and has 



sporidia .0003' or more long. 



J 



Peziza (Dasvscypha) rhabdocarpa. — Scattered, sessile, .02' in 

 diameter, thin and of a close, vesiculose-cellular structure, margin 

 fringed with short, black, fasciculate, obtuse, clavate-capitate hairs ; 

 asci oblong-cylindrical, sessile, obtusely pointed above, .oo25'x.ooo3'- 

 .0004' ; paraphyses stout, scarcely thickened above ; sporidia linear, 

 multinucleate (becoming multiseptate ?) yellowish, nearly as long as 

 the asci, and a little over .0001' thick. 



On dead twigs of Compionia, Sept., 1881. 



Peziza (Tapesia) phlegmacea. — Gregarious, sessile, orbicular, 

 plane, thin, white, soft, seated on a subiculum of delicate, creeping, 

 white, loosely-matted threads ; asci cylindric-clavate, abruptly 

 pointed above, .co3'x.ooo5'; paraphyses scarcely thickened above; spo- 

 ridia linear-fusiform, attenuated below to a slender point, .0013 x.oooi'. 



On decaying Magnolia^ June to Sept. ^ 



Peziza (Mollisia) abdita. — Disk orbicular, pale, .028-03' in 

 diameter, Avith a narrow, jagged, membranaceous margin, protruded 

 when fresh through a narrow slit in the epidermis, from which it 

 is again withdrawn and entirely disappears when dry ; asci sessile, 

 obiong-cylindrical, .0015'-. 002'x. 0001 75'-ooo2' ; paraphyses thick- 

 ened above; sporidia biseriate, clavate-oblong, about .0004 x. 0001, 

 Resembles P. protrusa, B. & C, in habit. When dry its presence is 

 indicated only by a narrow slit in the epidermis. 



On fallen petioles of Juglans regia^ June, 



Diatrype lateritia. — Seated in the bark and not penetrating 

 to the wood, which is not marked or discolored by it at all. Stroma 

 at first concave and of a dull brick- red color, at length convex and 

 olivaceous with a distinct margin like a Hclotium \'—^^ in diameter, 

 thickly dotted w ilh the papillate, black ostiola ; perithecia carnose- 

 cartilaginous, small and numerous (50-75) in two layers near the 

 surface, leaving the lower part^of the stroma entirely barren ; asci 

 clavate-cylindrical, .oo4'x.oqo3' ; sporidia overlapping, lanceolate, 

 curved, pale brown, 3-septate .ooo8'-.ooi'x.ooo2 . 



On dead limbs of Carpimis (?), West Chester, Fa., Aug. 1879, 



Haines, Everhart, Jefferis and Gray, No. 2. 



LoPHiosTOMA vermispora.— Perithecia scattered or subgregari- 

 ous, depressed-spherical, .006' in diameter, seated under the epidermis, 

 which is pierced by the stout, black, narrowly-compressed ostiola ; 

 asci clavate-cylindrical, .oo8'x.ooo5 -.0006' ; sporidia vermiform, 

 gradually tapering towards the base, about 7-septate and slightly 

 constricted at the septa, yellowM'sh or nearly hyaline,^ each of the 

 divisions w^ith 1-2 large nuclei, .003^-0035 ' long by .000 1 5'- 0002' thick. 



The sporidia are those of Ophiobolus but the compressed ostiolum 



is that of a Lophiostovia, 



On old stems of OEnothera bie?inis, August. 



DiAPORTHE apiculosa. — Perithecia buried in the substance of 

 the stem; ostiola rather stout and slightly projecting, so as to 

 rou^^hen the surface of the stem; spore-bearing part of the asci 



