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Paraphyses gradually thickened upwards, hyaline, 3-3^,". thick at 

 the apex. Sporidia uniseriate, perfectly globose, hyaline, 8-10// 

 diam. 



Comes near B. epichrysea Beck, but asci and sporidia smaller and 

 hyraenium lacunose. 

 Ciboria juncigena E. & E. 



On dead stems of Juncus, Falcon Valley, Wash., May, 1883 

 (W. N. Suksdorf, No. 371). 



Stipitate, shallow cup-shaped, thin, 4—5 mm. diam., glaucous-prui- 

 nose outside, disk wine-colored, subumbilicate. Stipe about 1 cm. 

 long, 1 mm. diam. below, black and longitudinally wrinkled for 

 about t the way up, flesh-color above, base flattened and attached to 

 the culm but not penetrating it. Asci clavate-cylindrical, about 

 60 X 4-5//., paraphysate, 8-sj>ored. Sporidia subbiseriate, allantoid, 

 slightly curved, hyaline, continuous, 7-8 x 1 i//., 

 Ciboria Johnsoni E. & E. 



N. A. F. No. 3,131. 



Growing from decaying "thorn apples" (fraits of Cratmgus), 

 more or less buried in the ground, Ann Arbor, Mich., May, 1893 

 (L. N. Johnson, No. 626). 



Stipe slender, 10-25 mm. long, subundulate, slightly enlarged 

 above into the strongly concave, 3-8 mm. diam., light dirty brown 

 ascoma. Asci cylindrical, short-stipitate, paraphysate, 8-spoi-ed. 

 Sporidia uniseriate, mostly overlapping and oblique, sometimes sub- 

 biseriate, ovate-elliptical, subacute, hyaline, continuous, 8-10x4-5//. 



The disk in drying becomes grayish- white. 

 Lachnella rhizopMla E. & E. 



On decaying roots of Rhus diversiloba, Columbia River, W. 

 KlikitatCo., Wash., Jan. 1894 (W. N. Suksdorf, No. 306). 



Gregarious, subsessile, dirty white, cup-shaped and 2-I mm. diam. 

 when fresh, contracted and closed when dry, at flrst subglobose and 

 nearly closed, outside clothed and margin fringed with straight, 

 rough, pale brown (under the microscope), sparingly septate hairs 

 100-150 X 4//. Asci cylindrical, short-stipitate, 8-spored. Para- 

 physes filiform, scarcely thickened above, about as long as the asci. 

 Sporidia overlapping-uuiseriate, or biseriate, fusoid, hyaline, 2-3- 

 nucleate, 10-12 x 3//. 



The ascomata remain cup-shaped, with the margin erect. Disk 

 pale, without any distinct shade of vellow. 



