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ASCOMYCETES. 



Microspliaera Russelliij Clinton. 



Ampliigenous ; mycelium arachnoid, evanescent ; appendages 8-18, very 

 long, flexuous, colored, paler toward the tips which are simple or one to 

 three times divided; sporangia ovate, 4-8; spores 4, elliptical, .0007'-.0008' 

 long. 



Leaves and petioles of Oxalis strida. Buffalo, Clinton. Pougli- 

 keepsie, Gerard. North Greenbush. October. 



This might Avith almost equal propriety be referred to the genus 

 Erysiphe. 



Erysii)lie Eui)horbiae, Peck. 



Mycelium thin; conceptacles small, .0035' in diameter; appendages few, 

 long, flexuous, colored; sporangia broadly ovate, 3-4; spores 3-4, large, 

 .001' X. 00065'. 



Leaves of Eupliorhia hyjiericifoUa. Greenbush. October. 



Geo^lossum simile^ Peck. 



Plant l'-2' high, black, minutely hairy ; club obtuse, generally compressed, 

 sometimes with a broad shallow groove on one side, tapering into the stem ; 

 asci broad ; spores fasciculate, elongate, slightly curved, seven-septate, 

 colored, .003'-.0004' long ; paraphyses slightly thickened at the tips, septate, 

 sometimes branched. 



Damp mossy ground in swamps and in peat bogs. Ft. Edward, 

 Hoive. Sandlake. September. 



It is scarcely possible to separate this species from G. liirsutum 

 without microscopical examination. 



Yibrissea lutea, Peck. 



Plant 6"-12" high, yellow, receptacle subglobose, smooth, the margin 

 slightly lobed, inflexed, free; stem nearly equal, solid, a little more highly 

 colored than the receptacle, longitudinally wrinkled when dry ; asci clavate 

 or cylindrical ; spores long, filiform. 



Prostrate mossy trunks of trees and among fallen leaves in woods. 

 North Elba. August. 



Peziza Solenia, PecA;. 



Cups minute, nearly cylindrical, hairy, brown, opening by a contracted, 

 white-margined mouth ; spores oblong, crowded or biseriate, uniseptate 

 usually with four nuclei, subhyaline, .0005' long ; ])araphyses filiform. 



