On Ranunculus recurvatus, Montgomery, 18;»;> (Olive). 

 Peiioxospora Kr.Micis Corda. 

 On Polygonum dumetorum scandens, Johnson, 7, 1890 (Fisher). [Herb. 



r. s.] 



ASCOMYCETES. 

 Dl^OMYC'ETES. 



CiiLORosi'LENU>[ AERuuijfosLiM (Oedsr.) De Not. Putnam, 12, 1S03. 



Helotium citrixum (Hedw.) Fr. Putnam, 10, 1892; 7, 1893 ; 10, 1893. 



Peziza coccinea Jacq. Putnam, 5, 1893. 



Peziza occidentali*; Schw. Vigo, 5, 1893 ; Bown, 5, 1893. 



Peziza scutellata L. Putnam, 5, 1893. 



PsiLOPEziA NUMMULARIS Berk. Putnam, 10, 1893. 



Urnula Craterium (Schw.) Fr. Tippecanoe, 4, 1892 ; Montgomery, 4, 1892 ; 

 Putnam, 5, 1892 ; 5, 1893 ; Vigo, 5, 1893. 



Eiiytisma acerinum (Pers.) Fr. 

 On Acer saccharinum (A. dasycarpum) Putnam, 10, 1891 ; 10, 189S; Mar- 

 shall, 10, 1893. 



RiiYTisMA axdromed.k (Pers.) Fr. 

 On Andromeda polifolia, Fulton, 10, 1893. 



Ehvtisma PRiNi (Schw.) Fr. 

 On Ilex verticillata, Marshall, 10, 1893; Vigo, 10, 1893. 



GvROMiTRA URUXNEA n. sp. A stout, fleshy, stipitate plant, 8-13 cm. high, 

 bearing a broad, much contorted, brown ascoma ; stem 2-5 cm. thick, more 

 or less enlarged and spongy-solid at the base, hollow below, rarely slightly 

 fluted, clear white ; receptacle 5-12 cm. across in the widest direction, the 

 two diameters usually considerably unequal, irregularly lobed and plicate, 

 in places faintly marked into areas by indistinct anastomosing ridges, 

 closely cohering with the stem in various parts, rich chocolate brown or 

 somewhat lighter if much covered with the leaves among which it grows, 

 whitish underneath ; asci 8-spored; spores oval, 28-30 mic. long by about 

 14 wide, hyaline, somewhat roughened-tuberculate, usually nucleate, the 

 highly refractive nucleus spherical or oval, 11 mic. or if oval 14 by 1 1 mic. 

 in diameter ; paraphyses slender, enlarged at the apex, faintly septate. 

 In rich woods, mostly in beech leaf mould ; Putnam county. May 1892, 

 1893 and 1894, first found by Dr. W. V. Brown. The plant is esculent, 

 tender and* possesses a fine flavor. Often as many as 8 or 10 plants 

 would be found in one small area but the plant appears to be local 

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