been proven, as collectors usually just "pull them up." The surface 

 of the pileus is dull, unicolorous, or with a few darker zones. The 

 spores of this species are exceptional in the group. Usually they are 

 deeply colored, but in this specimen so faintly colored, that if we did 

 not know the relations of the plant we might suppose them hyaline. 

 We present a photograph of a medium and a small sized specimen of 

 this fine collection from Mr. Small, and also a figure showing the 

 rooting base of a stem. 



URNULA CAMPYLOSPORA, FROM J. B. CLELAND, AUS- 

 TRALIA. We include this under the name as found in Cooke's 

 Handbook where a good figure 

 (165) of it is given. According 

 to Massee, who also gives a good 

 figure of it (Jour. Linn. Soc., 

 Vol. 31, PI. 1 6, f. 17), Berkeley 

 named it four different times, and 

 it is found in Saccardo under four 

 different genera, as follows: Ma- 

 cropodia campylospora, Geopyxis 

 cinerea-nigra, Rhizina reticulata, 

 and Peziza rhytidia. We have 

 not done enough work with this 

 class of plants to have definite 

 ideas of generic distinctions, but 

 we believe it is cogeneric with 

 our common Urnula Craterium. It seems frequent in Australasia. 



POLYSTICTUS ADUSTUS, FROM MRS. SUSAN TUCKER, 

 WASHINGTON (Fig. 1038). Pileus thin, sessile, dimidiate, growing 

 imbricate. Surface minutely pubescent, adustus, sometimes with a 



Fig. 1037. 



Fig. 1038. 



dark reddish brown zone at base. Context white, stupeus. Pores 

 minute, round, with white tissue, and usually adustus mouths. 



The nearest ally of this species is Polystictus hirsutus, notwith- 

 standing the entirely different surface. It has the general bearing 

 of a thin Trametes. 



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