Box.— Vol. I.] HARKNESS—CALIFORNIAN HYPOGMI. 261 



Collected at the following localities in California during 

 April: amongst redwoods, Mill Valley, Marin County; 

 under oaks, Wire Bridge, Placer County; in forest, 

 Laundry Farm, Alameda County. 



Elaphomyces ]\ees. 



Elaphomyces Nees., in Fries Syst. Myc, Vol. Ill, p. 21. 



Common integument thick, hard. Asci globose or obovate. Sporidia con- 

 sisting of several concentric utricles. Internal mass of fungus at length 

 dusty. (Berk. Outlines Brit. Fung., p. 378.) 



53. Elaphomyces variegatus Vitt. 



Elaphomyces variegatus Vitt., Monog. Tub., p. 68, Tab. IV, fig. 4. 



Mycelium yellow (or yellowish grey), inconspicuous; cortex thick, hard, 

 ochraceous-yellow or golden-yellow, rough, with thick pyramidal and obtuse, 

 or narrow, pointed, and fragile warts, or only granulated; peridium reddish 

 brown and variegated; asci 2-4-spored; sporidia opaque, blackish brown. 

 (Cooke's Handbook, Vol. II, p. 749.) 



No. 39, Harkness Coll. 



Under Pseudotsuga Douglassiz, Donner Lake, Nevada 

 County, Calif., July. 



54. Elaphomyces Morettii Vitt. 



Elaphomyces Morettii Vitt., Monog. Tub., p. 71, Tab. IV, fig. 17. 



Crusta fusco-purpurea; cortice duro, fragili, nigro-brunneo obtuseque ver- 

 rucoso; peridio albido-fusco; sporis fusco-nigrentibus. (Tul. Fungi Hypo., 

 p. 112.) 



No. 38, Harkness Coll. 



Under oaks, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz County, Calif., 



May. 



Hydnocystis Tul. 



Hydnocystis TvL., Fungi Hypo., p. 116, Tab. IV, Fig. 7; Tab. XIII, Fig. 2; 

 Tab. XIV, Fig. i. 



Receptaculum utriforme, globosufti aut varie sinuoso-anfractuosum, penitus 

 clausum, vel rima basilari inaperta, brevi s. longiuscula et gyrosa, pilisque 

 adpressis confertis fungum intrantibus occlusa et velata quasi dehiscens, in- 

 terius latissime uniloculare et vacuum. Integumentum, receptaculi extima 



