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peculiar from the secondary division of the primary cysts, of 
which the sori are composed, into a variable number of subequal 
portions clearly separated by straight lines of demarcation which 
give them a very spore-like appearance. 
Chondromyces catenulatus, nov. sp. Plate XXVJ, figs. 1-5. 
Color bright yellow-orange. Cystophore simple, relatively 
rather short, the rather broad base spreading somewhat on the 
substratum, tapering to the distal end, where it is several times 
cleft; the divisions thus formed pointed, short, slightly swollen 
above the base and bearing one to several divergent chains of 
cysts. Cysts pale yellow, united in sparingly (once or. twice) 
branched chains, fusiform to long elliptical, or often somewhat 
irregular in shape, the surface becoming more or less distinctly 
wrinkled at maturity, separated by longer or shorter, shriveled, 
membranous isthmuses; ten or twelve cysts often succeeding one 
another in a continuous series. Cystophore about 180-360 in 
height. Cysts about 20-50 X18, the longer chains 3004. 
Average height of the pseudofructification 650. Rods 4-6 X- 
I-1.3p. 
On a rotten poplar log, Hanover, N. H. 
This very interesting form was communicated to me by Professor G. R. 
Lyman, from whom I have received living material which, although it renews 
itself readily on the original substratum, I have been unable to cultivate on 
such mediaas I havetried. From the size of the spreading tuft of chains, often 
much more copiously developed than in fg. 3, it is a conspicuous species and 
is the only one thus far discovered with this peculiar cyst arrangement. The 
formation of the chain of cysts, which has been briefly referred to above, 
does not usually take place simultaneously throughout the ultimate rod-mass, 
but proceeds somewhat gradually from the base upward. As in other species, 
culture in a saturated atmosphere leads to the production of a variety of 
irregular and more or less abnormal forms, both in the cysts and in the cysto- 
phores, which tend to become short and stout. 
Chondromyces pediculatus, nov.sp. Plate XXVI, figs. 7-13: 
Orange-yellow becoming orange-red on drying. Cystophore 
solitary, erect, simple, usually rather slender and somewhat 
wrinkled; the cysts forming a loose, umbel-like head. Cysts 
pale yellowish, often nodding, nearly spherical to long-cylindrical, 
clavate or pyriform, usually broader and more or less abruptly 
