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Decorticated sticks. North Greenbush. October. 



It resembles, in color and texture, fi-agments of the albumen of 

 a cocoa nut. The cups are cracked and fissured in drying. In its 

 soft substance it approaches the section MolUsia. 



Peziza coreugata C. (& P. 



Subgregarious ; cups subglobose, then expanded and nearly 

 plane, black, the margin elevated ; hyraenium corrugated, ele- 

 vated in the center when dry, attached to the matrix by delicate 

 radiating fibrils; asci subclavate; spores narrowly fusiform, two 

 to three nucleate, .0006-.0008 in. long. 



Decaying wood. l!Torth Green bush. November, 

 It is allied to P. corwpressa. The spores probably become tri- 

 septate. 



Peziza chrysoplithalma Gerard. 



Damp earth among mosses. Poughkeepsie. Gerard. 



Helotium rugipes n. sp. 



Cups concave, then expanded, sometimes with a small dimple or 

 umbilicus in the center,. externally brown, yellowish in the dried 

 state; disk greenish-brown, sometimes yellowish; stem short, 

 tapering downwards, rugose-lacunose, the wrinkles extending 

 upwards on the cup; asci slender, cylindrical; spores uniseriate, 

 uniseptate, elliptical, .0003 x .00015 in. . 



Rotten wood. Worcester. July. 



The cups are 2"-4" broad. In the dried specimens before me 

 the hymenium has retained its greenish-brown hue. 



Helotium thujinum n. sjp. 



Cup smooth, subsessile, concave or nearly plane, orange, exter- 

 nally a little paler ; spores globose, .0003 in. in diameter. 



Fallen branchlets of arbor vitse. Thuja occidentalis. Lowville. 

 September. 



Helotium macrosporum n. sp. 



Cups at first nearly closed, then expanded and slightly concave, 

 whitish, externally furfuraceous; stem short, rather thick; spores 

 oblong, containing a single large nucleus, .001-.0012 in. long. 



Decaying wood of beech trees. Worcester. July. 

 The plant changes to a light brown in drying. The long spores 

 suggest the specific name. 



