98 Twenty-fifth Repoet on the State Museum. 



YlBRISSEA TrUNCOEUM Ft. 



Sticks and twi^s lying in water. Sandlake. June. 



NODULARIA ACERICOLA 71. SJ). 



Csespitose, small, flesln^, irregular, pale yellow, open from" the 

 first ; disk plane or convex, slightly pruinose, the margin obsolete; 

 asci clavate ; spores crowded or biseriate, oblong, sometimes curved, 

 .00r-.0013' long, .00033' broad ; paraphyses thickened at the tips, 

 subflexuous, slightly nodulose. 



Dead branches of Acer spicatum. North Elba. August. 



The tufts usually contain from three to eight plants and are 

 about one line broad. 



Patellaria indigotica C. c& p. 



Cups sessile, scattered or crowded, nearly plane, margined, 

 black, the disk tinged with blue ; asci subcylindrical ; spores 

 crowded or biseriate, subclavate, seven to nine-septate, with a 

 nucleus in each cell, subhyaline, .0015'-.002' long. 



Decaying wood. Savannah. October. 



The bluish tint of the hymenium is distinctly seen when a por- 

 tion of the disk is moistened and crushed on the slide of the 

 microscope. 



Helotium epiphyllum Fr. 



Decaying leaves in swamps. Sandlake. August. 



Peztza vesiculosa Bull. 



Dung heaps. West Albany. Jiine. 



Peziza pellita C. c& P. 



Sessile, subglobose, then expanded and radiately splitting into 

 four or five irregular lobes, 6"-10'' in diameter ; externally brown, 

 clothed with septate flexuous hairs ; disk yellowish, sometimes 

 tinged with red ; asci cylindrical ; spores elliptical, .0007'-.00l' long ; 

 paraphyses slightly clavate at the tips. 



Thin soil covering rocks. Lower Ausable Lake. Adirondack 

 Mts. July. 



Peziza badia Pe?'s. 



Damp ground and shaded banks by roadsides. Sandlake and 

 North Elba. August and September. 



Peziza stercorea Pe?'s. 



Excrement of cattle. North Elba. August. 



