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this species and Ascophanus carneiis are really distinct but for 

 the present they are allowed to stand. 



6. Humarina orthotricha (Cooke & Ellis) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Peziza orthotricha Cooke & Ellis; Cooke, Greviliea 6: 7. 1877. 

 Humaria orthotricha Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 119. 1889. 



Apothecia widely scattered, at first globose and closed, 

 opening and at maturity becoming scutellate or subdiscoid, 

 reaching a diameter of 1 mm., externally pale-orange; hymenium 

 plane or a little concave, orange-vermillion ; asci cylindric or 

 subcylindric to clavate, 8-spored, reaching a length of 200-250 m 

 and a diameter of 18-20 m; spores 1 -seriate or becoming irregu- 

 larly crowded, ellipsoid, becoming sculptured, 10-12 X 18-22 fx; 

 spore-.sculpturing taking the form of minute warts not exceeding 

 1 M in diameter; paraphyses gradually thickened above, reaching 

 a diameter of 5 /x at their apices, often strongly curved. 



On soil and bark among mosses, especially Orthotrichum. 



Type locality: New Jersey. 



Distribution : New York to New Jersey and Colorado. 



Illustrations: Greviliea 6: pi. 96, f. 33; Cooke, Mycographia 

 pi. 98, f. 355. 



7. Humarina Clementsii Seaver, nom. nov. 



Humaria phycophila Clements, Bot. Surv. Nebr. 4: 10. 1896. Not Humana 

 phycophila Oudem. Beih. Bol. Centi. 11: 526. 1902. 



Apothecia very minute, gregarious, sessile, scutellate, finally 

 becoming subdiscoid, reaching a diameter of 0.3-0.5 mm.; 

 hymenium at first concave, finally becoming convex, orange to 

 reddish, darker than the outside of the apothecium; asci clavate- 

 cylindric, obliquely operculate, 8-spored, reaching a length of 

 60-67 M and a diameter of 9-15 m; spores ellipsoid, obliquely 

 1 -seriate or often becoming 2-seriate, usually containing one oil- 

 drop, smooth, hyaline, 6-7.5 X 10-12.5 /x; paraphyses filiform, 

 filled with orange granules, strongly curved at their apices, 

 reaching a diameter of 1-2 /x. 



Among filaments of Lynghya on moist ground. 



Type locality: Beatrice, Nebraska. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



8. Humarina rubens (Boud.) Seaver, comb. nov. 

 Humaria rubens Boud. Bull. -Soc. Myc. Fr. 12: 13. 1896. 



Apothecia gregarious but not usually crowded, at first sub- 

 globose, expanding and becoming discoid or subdiscoid, reaching 



