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6. Peziza (Sarcoscypha) striispora E. & E. 



Stipitate, thin, cup-shaped, 4-6 mm. across (10 mm. when 

 pressed out flat), yellow outside and clothed with scattering, 

 brownish, continuous hairs 1-1^2 mm. long and 35-40," thick 

 at base, tapering above, composed of compacted, parallel 

 fibers. Hymenium pale orange. Asci cylindrical, sessile, 

 120-130x15,". Paraphyses filiform, branched above, tips 

 slightly swollen. Sporidia oblong-elliptical, uniseriate (end 

 to end), hyaline, 22-27 x 12 w, ends subacute, endochrome 

 constricted in the middle and faintly uniseptate, distinctly lon- 

 gitudinally striate. Stipe cylindrical, subequal, about 5 mm. 

 long, y 2 mm. thick. 



Much resembles P.Jioccosa Schw. but differs in the struct- 

 ure of the hairs and the larger striate sporidia. 



On decaying wood, Castillo, Nicaragua. 



•7. Karstenia sublilacina E. & E. 



Ascomata 2-4 mm. diam., flat, thin, of a light glaucous lilac 

 color, at first enclosed and covered by a thin, light colored, 

 membranaceous veil, soon erumpent and bordered by the 

 remains of the ruptured veil and the lobes of the ruptured 

 epidermis. Asci clavate-ellipsoid, subsessile, 110-120x25- 

 30//. Paraphyses abundant, simple, longer than the asci, 

 bearing above a layer of yellowish subglobose conidia 4," in 

 diameter. Sporidia conglobate, fasciculate, vermicular-fusoid, 

 hyaline, 75-35 « long, subundulate or slightly curved, about 

 12 fi thick in the middle, tapering to each end, with 15-24 

 elliptical nuclei lying transversely. 



On the green bark of a small tree at Castillo, Nicaragua. 



8. Hypocrea cubispora EIL & Holzvay. 'Jonrn. Mycol. J, 



p. 4. 



Specimens collected by Mr. C. L. Smith, No. 5, Indian 

 River, Nicaragua, March, 1896, have the stromata smaller 

 (1^-4 mm. diam.) and flatter, and seated on a thin crustose- 

 tomentose, lemon-yellow subiculum. Asci 65-75x4," cylin- 

 drical, paraphysate. Sporidia oblong, composed of 2 pale 



