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the slight differences we feel safe in saying that this is the same 

 species collected at Iowa City but whether these are both the 

 same as that describd as Gorgoniceps iowensis Rehm we are un- 

 certain. 



These specimens are close to Gorgoniceps pumilionis Rehm. 



CORYNE Tul.. Carp. 3: 190. 1865. 



Plants tufted, with a short, thick stem, externally smooth; sub- 

 stance gelatinous, hard when dry; hymenium at first concave, 

 becoming nearly plane, generally dark-colored; asci cylindrical, 

 8-spored ; spores fusiform, at last 2- to 8-celled, generally in two 

 rows; paraphyses slender, enlarged upwards; plants usually oc- 

 curring on deca^nng wood. 



Two forms occur in the state. 



KEY TO THE SPECIES. 

 Plants small, usually not to exceed 1 cm. in diame- 

 ter, spores 20/ti C. sarcoides. 



Plants large often 2 to 3 cm., spores large, 25 to 30/x. C. urnalis. 



*CoRTNE SARCOIDES (Jacq.^i TuL. Carpol. 3: 190. 1865. 

 Plate 26. f i. 



Lichen sarcoides Jacq.. ^lisc. Aust.. 2 : 378. 1781. 

 Peziza sarcoides Pers., Syn. Fung., 633. 1801. 

 Bidgaria sarcoides Fries, Syst. Myc, 2 : 168. 1822. 

 Omirophila sarcoides Karst., Myc. Fenn.. 1 : 86. 1871. 



CoRYNE URNALIS (Nyl.) Sacc, Fungi Ven.. IV., 31. 



Bidgaria urnalis Nyl., Obs. Pez. Fenn. 73. 1868. 

 Sarcoidsa sarcoides urnalis Karst., Myc. Fenn., 1 : 87. 1871. 

 Coryne purpurea Fuckel. Symb. Myc. 284. 1869. 

 Omhrophila purpurea Phill., Brit. Discom., 324. 1887. 



The characters of this species are identical with those of the 

 preceding except the size of the plants and spores. The spores 

 are mostly 25 to SO/j. long, and the plants are often 2 to 3 cm. in 

 diameter. 



Plants collected at Mt. Pleasant in woods along the Skunk 

 River. 



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