38 BOTANICAL GAZETTE [JULY 
2.5-3.5°° across, carnose-gelatinous, becoming hard and rigid 
when dry, with the margin involute and much wrinkled, glab- 
rous, olive-black : hymenium reddish-brown, cracking and show- 
ing the white substance of the ascoma: stipe central, short, 
stout, wrinkled (when dry): asci cylindrical, stipitate, 8-spored, 
250-270 by 15m: paraphyses filiform, slightly thickened above 
and brownish : sporidia uniseriate allantoid, rounded at the ends, 
slightly curved, mostly with a large vacuole in the center, sub- 
hyaline, 25-34 by 8—10#.— Cuernavaca, Sept. 
Has the general appearance of &. sfongiosa Pk., but with very different 
sporidia. 
DECORAH, IOWA. 
