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Peziza aurata F'hi. 
Decaying wood and bark. Catskill Mountains. July. 
PEZIZA MELALEUCA FY’. 
Decaying wood. Summit. Sept. 
The plant of Fries is regarded by some as a Patellaria. Our specimens, 
though agreeing tolerably well with the description of P. melaleuca, clearly 
belong to the genus Peziza. There is therefore some doubt concerning their 
identity, but for the present we thus refer them. It is to be regretted that 
the description of P. me/alewca makes no mention of the fruit, otherwise all 
doubt might be removed. 
Peziza (Mo.iisia) Tyrpua 7. sp. 
Cups scattered, small, .008’—.014’ broad, sessile, nearly plane, black, the 
disk dingy-whitish ; asci subcylindrical, short, .0012'-.0016 long; spores 
minute, sublanceolate, .0003' long. 
Dead leaves of Typha latifolia. Carlisle June. 
Peziza (Motuista) SpH#RELLA P. & C., n. sp. 
Cups minute, .005’-.0055 broad, sphzeriform or subglobose, sessile, gla- 
brous, black, at first closed, then opening by a small poriform mouth; asci 
subcylindrical, .0012'-.0014 long; spores crowded or biseriate, oblong, 
usually binucleate, .0004/—.0005' long; paraphyses filiform. 
Dead stems of red clover, Trifolium pratense. Buffalo. Oct. Clinton. 
At first sight the plants might be taken for some small black Spheeria. 
Peziza (MOLLISIA) ENTEROCHROMA 1. sp. 
Cups scattered or gregarious, at first cylindrical or clavate, then expanded, 
plane, about one line broad, subtremelloid, scarcely margined, supported on 
a short stem, yellowish, becoming reddish-brown or chestnut-colored when 
dry ; asci cylindrical ; spores fusiform, yellowish, .J008 —.001! long, .00025/— 
.0003! broad ; paraphyses filiform, thickened at the tips. 
: ete twigs of arbor-vitee, Zuja occidentalis. Adirondack Mountains. 
uly. 
This species belongs to the subsection Claviformes, or perhaps better to the 
modern genus Ombrophila, being allied to O. swhawrea, from which it differs 
in its color and larger spores. When dry the cups become quite concave. 
When crushed and moistened the flesh is greenish-yellow. 
Hetorium turescens Ff. 
Fallen spruce branches. Summit. Sept. 
HELOTIUM FRATERNUM n. sp. (Plate I, figs. 12-15.) 
Cups stipitate, plane or slightly concave, .5 -1' broad; disk pallid or 
yellowish, becoming more concave and dull red in drying, externally paler ; 
stem about equal in length to the diameter of the cup; asci clavate or cylin- 
drical; spores crowded, cylindrical or subfusiform, .00065/—.0008' long ; 
paraphyses filiform, numerous, scarcely thickened at the tips; flesh rather 
thick and firm. 
