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Helotium (Pelastea) affinissimum, n. sp. Cups subcaespitose, stipi- 

 tate, plane or convex, 1 line to 2 lines broad, yellow, the external sur- 

 face and margin slightly pruinose; stem subcylindrical, yellowish, 2 

 lines to 4 lines long; asci cylindrical ; spores oblong, obtuse, .0008 in. to 

 .0004 in. long. Decaying sticks buried in the ground. Albany. June. 

 This species resembles H. lutescens very closely, but it is more csespi- 

 tose in its mode of growth, becomes more discolored in drying and 

 has smaller spores. 



Patellaria Hamamelidis, n. sp. (Plate 2, figs. 7-10.) Small, .014 in 

 to .02 in. broad, sessile, black or externally slightly tinged with 

 reddish-brown, the disk nearly plane, margin at length obliterated; 

 asci oblong-clavate, spores crowded orbiseriate, oblong- fusiform, some- 

 times slightly curved, at first colorless, then slightly colored, trisep- 

 tate, .00065 in. to .0008 in. long, .00025 in. to .0003 in broad. Dead 

 bark of witch hazel, Hamamelis Virginica. North Greenbush. May. 



Cenangium Viburni, ScJm. Dead stems and branches of hobble 

 bash. Viburnum Lantanoides. Buffalo. Clinton. Oatskill moun- 

 tains. July. 



Caliciopsis, Ph. Eeceptacle oblong urceolate or subcylindrical, 

 at first closed, then open and pulverulent at the apex, stipitate. This 

 genus is instituted to receive a small Oalicium-like fungus that does 

 not well accord with the characters of any genus known to me. It 

 partakes to some extent of the characters of some of the small stipi- 

 tate species of Cenangium, but its more slender habit and urceolate or 

 subcylindrical receptacle which soon becomes pulverulent above sepa- 

 rate it from that genus. These same characters and its less tough 

 substance forbid its reference to the genus Tywpanis. The name is 

 formed from Calicium and opsis. 



Caliciopsis pinea, Ph, (Plate 2, figs. 11-15.) Scattered or sub- 

 caespitose, about 1 line high, glabrous, shining, black ; stem slender, 

 straight or curved, slightly thickened at the base, often growing from 

 a cluster of black spheriform perithecia which contain spermatoid 

 spores ; receptacle narrowly urceolate, generally a little curved or in- 

 clined to one side, slightly exceeding the stem in diameter, the apex 

 soon brownish pulverulent ; asci ovate-lanceolate ; long pedicel- 

 late, spores simple, elliptical, colored, .0002 in. to .00025 in. long. 



Bark of pine trees, Pinus Strobus. Guilderland and Charlton. The 

 peculiar form of the receptacle is suggestive of the dry capsules of many 

 mosses, particularly of species of Hypnum. The spheriform bodies and 

 their spermatoid contents are probably only another condition of this 

 fungus. The young stems are at first pointed, but as they increase in 

 length they become more obtuse and finally the receptacle is developed 

 at the top. Although this plant strongly resembles species of Calicium 

 externally, it is wholly destitute of any thalline crust and gonidial cells 

 and must be deemed a fungus. 



Tuber dryophilum, Tul. Staten Island. Gerard. 



Hysterium gramineum, M. & N. Dead leaves of sand reed, Calama- 

 grostis arenaria. Wading River. Sept. This is the Hysterium Eo- 

 bergii Desm. of Dr. Curtis' specimens. H. culmigenum var. grami- 

 neum Fr. and Loplwdermium arundinaceum var. gramineum, Duby. 



Taphrina alnitorqua, Tul. Fertile aments of alders. Newburgh. 

 July. 



