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Dead stems of herbs. North Greenbush. June. 
The species is allied to P. atrata, P. ebuli and P. sphe- 
riotdes, but it differs in fruit and in the more fibrous struc- 
‘ture of the cup. 
PEZIZA SCIRPINA 72. Sp. 
Minute, scattered, erumpent, glabrous, black externally, 
paler or grayish within ; asci oblong; spores crowded, fusi- 
form, straight or slightly curved, binucleate, colorless, 
.0008’—.001’ long. 
Dead stems of Scirpus cespitosus. Adirondack Mount- 
ains. July. 
Prziza Preripis A. & S. 
Dead fern stems. North Greenbush. June. 
HELOTIUM PILEATUM 2. sp. 
Subhemispherical or pileiform, stipitate, smooth, whitish, 
under surface flattened and slightly pruinose ; stem rather 
long, white, pruinose ; spores oblong, hyaline, .0004’—.0005’ 
long. 
Decaying herbaceous stems in wet places. Hunter, Greene 
county. June. (Plate 1, figs. 11-14.) 
The fresh plant, which is scarcely half an inch high, looks 
like some very small white Agaricus. 
HELOTIUM SALICELLUM FY. 
Dead willow twigs. Buffalo. Clinton. Dead grape vines. 
Albany. October. 
DERMATEA CINNAMOMEA C. & P. 
Subcespitose, erumpent, subsessile, surrounded by the 
ruptured epidermis, somewhat coriaceous, externally pul- 
verulent, cinnamon colored, margin involute, disk brown, 
nearly plane, somewhat angular when dry ; asci elongated- 
clavate ; spores narrowly elliptical, simple, .0005’ long. 
Dead branches of poplars. Shandaken. June. 
PATELLARIA FUSISPORA C. & P. 
Gregarious immarginate, dull black, orbicular, regular, 
convex, lenticular, somewhat coriaceous; asci cylindrical, 
attenuated at the base; spores lanceolate, uniseptate 
at first with each cell binucleate, ultimately brown, 
