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made two days later from the same locality, and in all about thirty 

 specimens of the fungus were obtained. Search has been made under 

 other trees in the same vicinity and elsewhere, but as yet no further 

 localities have been found. 



All the fungi collected were in a mature condition. There had 

 hardly been time for their development this spring, though such forms 

 as Saccoscypha coccinea Jacq. had already made their appearance. It 



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Fig. I. — Group of the fungi, natural ske. From a photograph. 



seems probable that the ascomata of the truffle are formed in the late 

 autumn, and lie over the winter in a practically mature state. They 

 probably break down early in the spring. Of a number which were 

 collected and placed in earth out of doors, the greater part are yet 

 (March 26) in a good state of preservation, but though there has been 

 very little warm weather since the date of their collection, and the 

 ground has been covered with snow for a portion of the time, several 

 of them are beginning to show signs of disintegration. 



"^ in diameter {fig. /)- The smaller 

 ones are almost spherical, the larger of a somewhat irregular elliptical 

 form. In one case lyso have evidently grown together during their 

 formation, producing a peculiar dumb-bell shaped body. 



Along one side of the fungus runs an irregular £car-like groove 



The fungi vary from 0.5-2 



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