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subsessile, 55-60x12-15/;., aparaphysate, 4-8 spored. Sporidia 

 mostly biseriate, varying from elliptical to oblong and 8-22 x 8-1 0//.; 

 3-septate and constricted at the septa, especially at the middle one, 

 where they readily separate, obtuse at the ends, hyaline. Belongs in 

 Saccardo's subdivision Roumegueria and allied to, but apparently 

 different from H. durissima Berk. 



Ciboria Liquidambaris E. & E. 



On decaying capsules of IAquidambar. Naamans Creek, Delaware, 

 May 1895. A. Commons, No, 2,710. 



Gregarious stipitate, 4-5 mm. high. Ascoma about 2 mm. broad, 

 orbicular, convex and brownish when dry, margin paler, Stipe, 

 white or dirty-white, puberulent. Asci clavate, stipitate, 75-80 x 

 7-8 ii, with filiform paraphyses. Sporidia subbiseriate, oblong, 

 hyaline, continuous, 8-11 x 3 //. 



Mollisia Asolepiadis E. & E. 



On dead stems of Asclepias. London, Canada, July, 1895. 

 DeamessNo. 2,283. 



At first covered by the epidermis, then erumpent-superficial, orbic- 

 ular, f mm. diam., pale slate-color, margin coarsely toothed or sub- 

 entire, plano-convex, much shrunken when dry. Asci cylindrical, 

 short-stipitate, paraphysate, 8-spored, 55-60x6,".. Sporidia mostly 

 biseriate, subinequi laterally elliptical, 2-nucleate, hyaline, 

 8-10 x 3 ;• 



Closely allied to Peziza abdita Ell. but disk darker, sporidia 

 broader and ascoma not as completely withdrawn beneath the epi- 

 dermis when dry. 



Cenangium conglobatum E. & E. 



On dead limbs of some deciduous tree or shrub. Bay of Islands, 

 West Coast of Newfoundland, July 1895. Rev. A. C. Waghorne, 

 No. 42. 



Densely cespitose, forming compact tufts or balls 3-4 mm. diam. 

 Ascomata cup-shaped, stag-color or ferruginous inside and out, 

 margin light-colored and fringed with short, pale, smooth hairs, 

 outside granulose-pilose. Asci clavate-cylindrical, sessile, 8-spored, 

 30x5-6;/. Sporidia subbiseriate, allantoid, 2-nucleate, hyaline, 

 obtuse, slightly curved, 5-6] x 2-2J ,"• Paraphyses filiform, with 

 a knob-like thickening at the tips. Asci and paraphyses have a 

 ferruginous tint. 



