(eae * ga pie . 
Moo cata s Bul. PT 22, 
a, Decaying fungi. Albany. Sept: 
facor caninus Pers. 
Excrement of dogs. 
Ticonderoga. Aug. 
Damp shaded soil in woods. Albany and North Greenbush. J uly. 
ay Prziza VULCANALIS P&. 
Burnt ground under spruce trees. Adirondack Mountains. Kam oe 
_ This is regarded by some as equivalent to P. cupularis, but if the figure 
and description of P. cupularis in Mycographia are correct, our plant should — 
he kept separate. It is not ‘‘subsessile,”’ but it always, so far as I have seen, it % 
has a distinct stem. Its color, externally, is brown or ochraceous-brown, and 
the disk is orange or yellow-orange, not of a uniform cervine color without and 
- within as figured. Neither is it ‘externally farinose;” and finally the spores 
_ are considerably smaller and destitute of nuclei. Indeed, our plant approaches — ‘ és . 
nearer to P. pulchra than to P. cupularis as given in Mycographia, and :T aq 
__ would not be averse to regarding it equivalent to that species. But if these a 
_ two are the same, the name P. vulcanalis antedates the other and should be 
- retained. mes 
Cups whitish or yellowish, eae sessile, attached by a slight project- v 
ing point, externally slightly furfuraceous, the margin often wavy or irregu- 
lar, the hymenium smooth, sometimes uneven ; asci long, slender, cylindrical ; i 
aaa elliptical, smooth, uniseriate, occupying the upper part of the ascus, 
S. .0003'—.0004 long; paraphyses slender, slightly clavate at the tips. 
a a Partridge dung. Oneida. July. Warne. 
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- Perziza Umsrorum Fk. ees 
© Clay soil. Oneida. Warne. . a 
an 3 _ PEzIzA SULPHUREA Pers. 
Dead stems of herbs in damp places. Albany. Sept. 
bx: | Peziza (DasyscyPH2) viripicoma PA. 
3 s Cups minute, sessile, villose, yellowish-green ; asci oblong clavate ; spores 
4 crowded or biseriate, oblong or subfusiform, .0005 —.0006' long, -0002'— 
00025 broad. ae = 
cn Decaying wood. Sandlake. Aug. eae 
_____ The peculiar color of this minute species renders it an attractive object. 
SSR BRUNNEOLA Desm. 
eS Fallen leaves. Center. June. 
a - Peziza Osmunve C. & E. 
a Near the base of Osmunda stems. Center. Sept. 
Peziza (Motuista) pranopisca P. & C. 
Cups minute, sessile, whitish, the disk plane or slightly convex, obliterating — 
oo the margin; asci short; spores crowded or biseriate, subfusiform, .0003'— 
" -00035’ long. i 
: Dead leaves of grass, Andropogon scoparius. Buffalo. Nov. Clinton. an 
