264 CALIFORNIA ACADEMY OF SCIENCES. [Proc. 3D Ser. 



Beneath the surface of the ground under oaks, Contra 

 Costa County, Calif., May. 



Balsamia Vitt. 



Balsamia Vitt., Monog. Tub., p. 30. 



Common integument warty. Hymenium complicated with distinct lacunae 

 not leading to the surface. Sporidia cylindrical or oblongo-elliptic, even, 

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



61. Balsamia magnata, sp. nov. 



Subglobose, densely verrucose, 2.5 cm. in diam., color orange red; cavity 

 gyrose; gleba white, firm; asci subovate, 8-spored, 50x38//; spores cylin- 

 drical, containing from one to three oil globules, 18 x 8//. 



Type, No. 185, Harkness Coll. 



In forests, Auburn, Placer County, Calif., May. 



62. Balsamia nigrens, sp. nov. 



Medium, semiglobose, irregular, black, verrucose, warts with polygonal 

 base; openings stellar, sometimes extending through the mass; cavities large 

 and somewhat regular; gleba white, firm, crossed by white wavy lines; asci 

 semiglobose or ellipsoidal, briefly stipitate, 8-spored, 48x32/^1; spores ob- 

 long-elliptic, guttulate, 26 x 12 At- 



Type, No. 180, Harkness Coll. 



Beneath Ceanothus^ Auburn, Placer County, Calif., May. 



63. Balsamia alba, sp. nov. 



Large, color dirty white, subglobose, fissured, deeply verrucose; gleba 

 firm; asci ellipsoidal, 8-spored; spores cylindrical, guttulate, 12 x 18 ij.. 



Type, No. 129, Harkness Coll. 



Under oaks. Wire Bridge, Placer County, Calif., Feb- 

 ruary. 



This fungus is remarkable for the density of the gleba 

 and the small number of its asci. 



