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here would be taken for P a t e 1 1 i n a , but a few mature ones show 

 it to be a P a t e 1 1 a r i a , and from the description it is referred 

 to P. nigrovirens. The same material also contains V a 1 s a 

 c o r n i n a , and a form of Hysterographium Mori 

 (Schw.) Rehm. 



Cenangium griseum Dearness & House, sp. nov. 



Gregarious, erumpent, sessile, }4-2 mm, clothed externally with a 

 pale gray furfuraceous covering; disc pale brown, concave; asci 

 cylindrical stipitate, not blue with iodine, p. sp. 85-90 x 8-12 /a; 

 paraphyses longer than the asci, tips thickened, agglutinated, form- 

 ing an epithecium; sporidia 8, hyaline, uniseriate, elliptic, very min- 

 utely asperate, 10-15 /x, mostly about 12 x 7-10 fx. 



On dead branches of Acer spicatum Lam., Newcomb, 

 Essex county. H. D. House, June 6, 1922. Cenangium bi- 

 color (Ell.) Sacc, also on Acer, differs in having a darker disc 

 and much narrower spores. 



Godronia Cephalanthi (Schw.) Dearness & House, comb. nov. 



Peziza Cephalanthi Schw. Syn. Fung. Carol, n. 1256. 1822 

 Cenangium Cephalanthi Sacc. Syll. 8 : 571. 1899 — ? Fries, Syst. 

 Myc. 2: 188. 1822 



Saccardo in compiling Cenangium Cephalanthi had 



only the incomplete account of Fries. The study of a collection in 



mature fruit enables us to add the following characters : 



Asci clavate, 63-75 x 8-10 /*; paraphyses linear, longer than the 

 asci, concolorous at the tips and somewhat thickened ; sporidia 

 linear, narrowly clavate, hyaline, five to eight-septate, 30-65 x 3 /x. 



On the character of the mature fruit this is referred by us to 

 Godronia. The brief description by Fries applies perfectly as far as 

 it goes, to the material here cited. The plants are erumpent and have 

 a thin, brown, short-celled perithecium which in mature, dry speci- 

 mens is as stated by Fries, " 1 a c e r o i n v o 1 u t o . " In the 

 bright colored dtec, branched paraphyses and filiform sporidia, some 

 of the immersed units suggest N a e m a c y c 1 u s . It is left, how- 

 ever, in the dermataceae where Fries and Doctor Peck classified it, 

 although it lacks the usual firmness of that order. 



Karner, Albany county. C. H. Peck. West Albany. Peck. 

 Greenbush, Rensselaer county. C. H. Peck, all on C e p h a 1 a n - 

 thus occidentalis L. There is also a specimen from Ala- 

 bama collected by Peters in the collection received by Doctor Peck 

 from M. A. Curtis. 



