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New Species of Grasses. 
By George Vasey. 
4 Spororolus Wolfit. — This was published and figured in the 
Botany of Wheeler's Survey, Vol. vi., 1878, as Vilfa minima. As 
Vilfa is now united with Sporobolus, and as the specific name is pre- 
occupied, it therefore becomes necessary for our plant to have a 
new name, as above, in honor of the discoverer, Mr John Wolf, It 
was collected at Twin Lakes, Colorado, in 1873. It is much more 
diminutive than Sporoholus gradllimus^ Thurb., with the spikelets 
only half as large. 
^ Danthonia intermedia. —Culms i-i^ ft. high, leafy below, radi- 
' cal leaves 6-10 inches long, narrow, cauline leaves 2 to 6 inches, 
pubescent, especially on the sheaths, ligule merely a narrow hairy 
ring, with longer hairs at the margins; panicle narrow, \~2\ inches 
long, rays alternate, mostly short, the lower generally with i! or 3 
spikelets, the upper with single spikelets; spikelets 6-8 lines long, 
about 5-flowered, empty glumes somewhat longer than the flowers, 
about 5-nerved, acute; flowering-glumes 3-4 lines long, mostly smooth 
on the back, hairy on the margins, nerves not prominent, teeth about 
I line long, broad, awn stout, about 3 lines long, palet slightly shorter 
than the flowering glume. 
This may be readily distinguished from D. sericea^ with which it 
has been confounded, by its shorter and smoother culms and leaves, 
closer and fewer flowered panicle, flowering-glume smooth or smooth- 
ish on the back, by the much shorter and broader teeth, and shorter, 
stouter awns. 
California, Rocky Mountains, Plains of Br. America to Mt. 
Albert, Lower Canada (O. D. Allen). 
New North American Fungi. 
By J. B. Elms. 
The species of fungi here described were collected by Mr. S. J. 
Harkness in Utah Territory, mostly at an elevation of 7,600 to 8,000 
^ ft. It should also be stated that the species described on pp. 123-4, 
Vol. viii. of this journal, were collected at this same altitude. 
Alternaria hispidula. — Forming olivaceous tufts shaped like a 
Helotium, with a thick stem composed of closely compacted, branch- 
ing, minutely roughened threads, expanding at intervals of 15-20// 
into oval-elliptical, 3-4-septate, minutely roughened spores, 12-20X 
8-12/1. 
On sage-brush. 
Peziza oleosa.— Scattered or gregarious, small, subglobose when 
fresh, orbicular and concave, with a thick, obtuse margin when dry, 
substance oily-gelatinous, color bright orange-red; asci sessile, sub- 
lanceolate, broadest in the middle (75-90 X 10-12/^); paraphyses none; 
sporidia biseriate, fusiform-navicular, uniseptate, hyaline, 18-22x3- 
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z^y^ 
fiisan'oides, Berk. On dead herbaceous stems. 
LopHtosTOMA PALLIDUM.— Perithecia subhemispherical, 25""- in 
