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Decaying wood.. Buffalo. Clinton. Greenbush and Croghan. 
July to September. 
_The colored spores are a noticeable feature. 
Hypocrfa PATELLA C. & P. n. sp. 
Fleshy, patellate, discoid, one to two lines broad, pale ochraceous ; 
asci cylindrical; spores globose, sixteen, hyaline, .00012—.00016' in 
diameter. 
Decaying wood. Buffalo. Clinton. March and April. 
This plant resembles externally some species of Helotium. The 
ostiola are smaller and less prominent than in the preceding species. 
HypocrrEa ruFA 7. 
Dead alders. Center. 
Hypocrea apicunata C. & P. n. sp. 
Fleshy, soft, growing in irregular patches, smooth, ochraceous 
inclining to orange, the extreme margin barren ; asci cylindrical ; 
spores fusiform, with an apiculus at each extremity, uniseptate, color- 
less, .0011'—.0015’ long, .0003’—.0004' broad. 
Ground and rocks. Catskill Mts. and Sandlake. June to August. 
The color of the ostiola in this species is variable, ranging from 
amber to orange. 
HyYPpoMYcEs TRANSFORMANS 7. sp. 
Subiculum effused, variable in color, pallid, golden-yellow, ochra- 
ceous or brick-red ; perithecia ovate or subglobose, papillate, sunk in 
the subiculum; ostiola prominent, obtuse, amber or orange; asci 
cylindrical ; spores fusiform, apiculate at each end, somewhat rough, 
simple or rarely with the endochrome obscurely divided, colorless; 
.0013—.0015' long. 
Parasitic on Cantharellus cibarius, which it transforms into an 
irregular mass. Sandlake. August. 
The spores of Hypocrea apiculata resemble those of this and other 
species of Zypomyces, but the plant is not “ parasitic on fungi,” an 
essential character in the genus Hypomyces as at present defined. 
Neither do its spores agree well with the spore-character of the genus 
Hypocrea to which the species is referred, so that the plant must be 
regarded as an aberrant species intermediate between the two genera. 
It therefore becomes a question whether the two genera are well sepa- 
rated and whether they ought not to be reunited. 
MetocraMMA SUPERFICIALIS P. & C. n. sp. 
Stroma superficial, depressed, one to two lines broad, pale or yel- 
lowish within; perithecia unequal, more or less irregular, crowded, 
