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



Under shrubs in firm ground to which it adheres by its 

 hairy investment. Auburn, Placer County, Calif., Novem- 

 ber to April. 



Stephensia Tul. 



Stephensia Tul., Fungi Hypo., p. 129. 



Common integument fleshy, cottony. Base distinct. Hymenium intricate. 

 Asci cylindrical. Sporidia globose, even, at length verrucose. (Berk. Out- 

 lines Brit. Fung., p. 377.) 



73. Stephensia bombycina Tul. 



Plate XLIV, Figs i8a-i8c. 



Stephensia bombycina Tul., Fungi Hypo., p. 130, Tab. XII, Fig. 4. 

 Genea bombycina Vitt., Monog. Tub., p. 29, Tab. Ill, Fig. 13, et Tab. IV, 

 Fig. 8; Berk., Ann. & Mag. Nat. Hist., ist Ser., Vol. XIII, p. 357. 



Subglobose, depressed; peridium rather soft, floccose, irregularly intruded 

 into the cavity, destitute of rooting fibres; flesh gyrose- venose; sporidia pel- 

 lucid, spherical. (Cooke's Handbook, Vol. II, p. 745.) 



No. 173, Harkness Coll. 



Found in forests, March. No locality. 

 This fungus varies slightly from the original description 

 in the spores, which are generally biseriate and marked 

 by irregularly foveolate depressions, 



PachyphlcBus Tul. 



Pachyphlceus Tul., Fungi Hypo., p. 130. 



Common integument warty, opening by a terminal aperture. Base distinct. 

 Asci clavate. Sporidia spherical. (Berk. Outlines Brit. Fung., p. 377.) 



74. Pachyphlceus carneus, sp. nov. 

 Plate XLV, Figs. 330-331^. 



Subrotund, i cm. in diam., studded with slight warty elevations with stel- 

 late markings at their apex and an irregularly outlined base; gleba citron; 

 veins obscure; asci elongate or ovoid and narrowed at terminus, briefly pedi- 

 cellate, 8-spored; spores irregularly seriate, large, globose, verrucose, 14/^ 

 in diam. 



Type, No. 253, Harkness Coll. 



