Hone: pezizales, piiacidiales and tucerales of minn. 83 



dark olive when dry ; asci clavate-cylindrical, 70-75 x 6-7 mm., sub- 

 sessile. Paraphyses yellowish-brown, about as long as asci, scarce- 

 ly thickened above : sporidia biseriate, oblong, yellowish-hyaline, 

 rounded at the ends, 6-7x1.5-2 mm. The margin, when dry, is 

 more or less undulate, but not strongly incurved. 

 On old stumps; Wright, July 1886, Hoi way 269. 



8. Humaria tetraspora (Fckl.) Boud. Bull. Soc. Myc. 1:106. 1885. 

 Ascobolus tctrasporus Fckl. Hedwigia. 5:4. tab. i. fig. 5. 1866. 

 Scattered, sessile, fleshy, concave to disk-like, expanded, glabrous, 



up to 2 mm. diameter ; hymenium bright red ; exterior slightly light- 

 er in color; spores fusiform and attenuated, at the ends blunt, 

 smooth, continuous, hyaline, 18-20x8-10 mic. uniseriate, only four 

 spores in each ascus ; one large central guttula, or 2 or 3 smaller 

 ones in each ; paraphyses slender, clavate, septate. 



On the ground; Ramsey, May 1903, E. A. Cuzner. 



Closely related to P. leucoloma. (Hedw.). 



Exsiccati : Sydow, Mycoth. March. 4363 : Plates : Gill. Discom. 

 franc, pi. 52. fig. i ; Cooke, Mycogr. pi. 12. fig. 45 ; Seaver, Dis- 

 com. Eastern Iowa, pi. 11. fig. i ; Boudier, Icones Mycol. 2. pi. 393. 



9. Humaria pertenuis (Cooke). 



Pcziza tapeina Cooke, Mycogr. 157. fig. 268. 1879. 



Pcziza pertenuis Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8 : 88. 1889. 



Slightly gregarious, sessile, fleshy, hemispherical becoming ex- 

 panded saucer-like ; margin erect, incurved, finely crenulate or en- 

 tire; hymenium slightly darker, 4 mm.-i cm. diameter; exterior 

 subfarinose, ashy to dirty white ; spores elliptical, obtuse, biguttu- 

 late, asperulate, hyaline, 14-18 x 8-9 mic. ; paraphyses linear or 

 clavate, straight, septate, when clavate, up to 6 mic. wide. 



On soil of river bottom; Houston, Aug. 1900, Lyon 708. 



Plates : Cooke, Mycogr. pi. 70. fig. 268. 



6. GEOPYXIS PERSOON. 



Cups gregarious or solitary, fleshy, large, stipitate, beaker-shape 

 or spreading ; stipe short, thick, plain ; exterior smooth or rough, 

 not hairy ; spores elliptical, smooth or rough, hyaline, continuous. 



I. Geopyxis colensoi (Berkeley). 



Pezisa colensoi Berkeley, Hook. Flora Nov. Zeal. 2: 200. tab. 5. 

 i. fig. 5. 1855. 



Sarcoscypha colensoi Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 157. 1889. 



Solitary, stipitate, thin, rather tough, cup funnel-shaped be- 



