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74 Peck: New Species oF FunGI 
HELVELLA MACROPUS brevis var. nov. | 
Cups small, 8—16 mm. broad ; hymenium black or nearly so; _ ; 
stem short, 8-16 mm. long; spores uninucleate. i 
Massachusetts. G. E. Morris. 
The small size, darker hymenium and very short stem, which 7 
is scarcely more than half an inch long, are the distinguishing 
characters of this variety. A conglobated mass of earth adheres 
to the bottom of the stem which, thereby appears at first sight 10 
be bulbous. | 
