REPORT OF THE BOTANIST. 107 
MITRULA INFLATA Scho. 
Decaying wood and bark of trees. Catskill Mts. and Wor- 
cester. July and August. 
I have never found this plant fertile. 
PEZIZA ADUSTA C.& P. 
Gregarious or scattered ; cups subglobose, then open and 
hemispherical, at length flattened, one line broad, somewhat 
irregular when dry, brown externally, with a few radiating 
white filaments at the base; disk amber-colored or yellow- 
ish, darker when dry, nearly plane or slightly concave ; 
asci cylindrical; spores elliptical, binucleate, .0007’ long, 
.0003’ broad ; paraphyses clavate, brownish. 
Burnt ground under pine trees. West Albany. July. 
PEZIZA SUBCARNEA C. & P. 
Scattered, stipitate, small; cups at first clavate then 
infundibuliform, wholly flesh-colored ; stem long, attenu- 
ated at the base, expanded above into the cup; margin con- 
tracted, paler; asci cylindrical; spores linear, obtuse, 
hyaline. 
Dead liverworts on old logsin woods. Indian Lake. July. 
The liverworts die in suborbicular patches which are some- 
times several inches in diameter. On these patches of dead 
plants the fungus grows. The inference is that the fungus 
causes the death of the liverwort. The species is closely 
allied to P. pyriformis. 
ASCOBOLUS PILOSUS /7. 
Dung of deer. Adirondack Mts. August. 
HELOTIUM ACICULARE &7. 
Decaying half-buried wood. Adirondack Mts. August. 
HELOTIUM FASTIDIOSUM 7. Sp. 
Cups small, convex or plane, stipitate, pale yellow or 
whitish ; stem slender, about equal in length to the diam- 
eter of the cups, brownish or yellow with a brownish base ; 
asci narrowly clavate; spores crowded or biseriate, elon- 
gated, subclavate, multinucleate, .001’ long, about .0002’ 
broad, sometimes slightly curved. 
Petioles and midribs of fallen alder leaves in wet places. 
Forestburgh. September. 
