FUNGI. 7 



loosely connected, thick walled, dark brown cells that are 

 about 12x8/u., thickly clothed throughout with continuous, 

 light cinnamon or orange brown, heavily roughened, some- 

 what crisped hairs, about 150-200x4/x, margin partially open 

 when moist disclosing the salmon or orange disc, closely in- 

 rolled and covering the disc when dry; asci cylindric, short 

 stipitate: paraphyses thread like, ends not thickened, about 

 equalling the asci; ascospores subdistichous, cylindric- 

 fusoid, at length faintly uniseptate, hyaline or slightly tinted, 

 8-10x3/4. 



On decorticated branches of Rhus trilobata, Hermosa, 

 Colo., 1 Apr.; n. 31. This is near L. rhizophylla E. & E. Proc. 

 Philad. Acad. (1894); 348, but disagrees with the descrip- 

 tion there given in its somewhat larger size and slightly 

 smaller spores, but more particularly in the cinnamon-brown 

 of the crisped, continuous hairs and in the orange disc. In 

 the latter species the color is "dirty white," the hairs are 

 septate, and the disc has "no shade of yellow." 



MOLLISIACE.E. 



NIPTERA(? ) COCCINEA, n. sp. Scattered or gregarius ; asco- 

 carps irregular saucer shaped, J-Jmm., soft, thin, subgela- 

 tinous, bright vermilion throughout or sometimes the margin 

 bordered by a lighter nearly white line : asci oval, crowded, 

 40-50x4-6/x-; paraphyses thread like, indistinct, scarcely ex- 

 ceeding the asci and not forming and not forming an epi- 

 thecium; ascospores subcylindric, hyaline, once septate, not 

 constricted, about 8x3^. 



On dead stems of Corydalis Brandegei, near Pagosa Peak, 

 Colo., 10,000 feet, 29 Aug.; n. 178 in part. The ascocarp is 

 exceedingly thin and delicate and the hypotheceum is 

 scantily developed. 



