400 The Botanical Gazette. [October, 
black, the pigmentation commencing at the sutural and basal 
lines and spreading thence toward the centers of the segments 
of the sporangial wall. The lines of rupture occurred between 
the rows of pigment points which first outlined the sutures. 
On examination of the matured sporangial wall under proper 
microscopical conditions of light and high amplification, a 
marginal line of rounded cells, varying in degree in different 
specimens, may usually be seen following the outline of the 
segments and marking the position of the primary sutural 
points or foci of pigmentation. 
This species will probably be found to beas widely distrib- 
uted in the northern United States as in northern Europé 
where only it has yet been recorded. It was recorded by 
Schweinitz in his herbarium and in his synopsis of North 
American fungi under the name of Licea pusilla Schrad., with 
which species it is probably often confounded. ‘ 
The writer is indebted to the courtesy of Arthur Lister, 
Esq., of London, for the identification of his specimens W! 
authentic specimens of the species. 
The American localities for this species, 
writer, are Philadelphia, Pa. ; Adirondack M 
Newfield, N. J. (J. B. Ellis). 
Philadelphia, Pa. 
known ‘to the 
ts., N. Y.; and 
