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ASCOMYCETES. 
Microsphaera Russellii, Clinton. 
Amphigenous; 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 Owalis stricta. Buffalo, Clinton. Pough- 
keepsie, Gerard. North Greenbush. October. 
This might with almost equal propriety be referred to the genus 
Hrysiphe. 
Erysiphe Euphorbiae, Neck. 
Mycelium thin; conceptacles small, .0085' in diameter; appendages few, 
long, flexuous, colored; sporangia broadly ovate, 8-4; spores 3-4, large, 
OL! x .00065'. 
Leaves of Luphorbia hypericifolia. Greenbush. October. 
Geoglossum simile, Peck. 
Plant 1'-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, .008'-.0004' long ; paraphyses slightly thickened at the tips, septate, 
sometimes branched. 
Damp mossy ground in swamps and in peat bogs. It. Edward, 
Howe. Sandlake. September. 
It is scarcely possible to separate this species from G. hirsudum 
without microscopical examination. 
Vibrissea 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, Peck. 
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; paraphyses filiform, 
