200 ERYTHEA. 
Maculicolous, hypophyllous, ascomata stipitate, nearly 
closed at first, then open and cup-shaped, # to 1 mm. diam., 
pale orange, hymenium, more deeply colored, clothed outside 
with a dense coat of short, white hairs. Stipe cylindrical, 
rather less in length than the diameter of the cup. Asei 
clavate-cylindrical, slender, 40 x 38 to 4 y, short-stipitate, 
aparaphysate. Sporidia biseriate, oblong or clavate-oblong, 
hyaline, continuous, 4 to 5 x 1} y. 
The fungus is seated on large, round spots, 2 to 3 cm. 
diam., grayish white above, rusty brown below, with a dark 
purple border shading into red. 
Psilopezia trachyspora, E. & E. 
On rotten wood, North Bend, King Co., Wash., Aug., 1872, 
Adella M. Parker, No. 92. 
Applanate, 4 to 14 cm. diam., glaucous brown, margin 
narrowly incurved, wrinkled outside, reddish brown below, 
substance white inside. Asci cylindrical, stipitate, 200 x 18 
to 20 u, p. sp. 110 to 180 uw long. Paraphyses cylindrical, 
stout, yellow-brown, 4 to 5 y thick, subequal throughout. 
Sporidia uniseriate, elliptical, hyaline becoming slightly 
brownish, 18 to 20 x 12 to 14 y, epispore coarsely and densely 
warted. 
Distinguished from Ps. nummularia, Berk. (which it most 
resembles), by its smaller size, glaucous color and rough 
sporidia. 
Camarosporium Eriogoni, E. & E. 
On dead stems of Hriogonum sp. Fort Collins, Colorado, 
June 13, 1893, C. F. Baker, No. 94. 
Perithecia scattered, erumpent, black, globose-hemi- 
spherical, about 100 ~ diam. Ostiolum subpapilliform, per- 
forated. Sporules subglobose or elliptical or subcubical, 
light brown, 1-septate, and often with one or both cells 
divided by a septum at right angles to the first (sarcinuliform). 
Septoria Araliae, E. & E. 
On leaves of Aralia Californica, Mill Valley, July 24, 
1893, W. C. Blasdale, No, 163. 
