﻿Report 
  of 
  the 
  Botanist. 
  67 
  

  

  Dead 
  stems 
  of 
  herbs. 
  North 
  Greenbush. 
  • 
  June. 
  

  

  The 
  species 
  is 
  allied 
  to 
  P. 
  atrata, 
  P. 
  ebuli 
  and 
  P. 
  spJice- 
  

   rioides, 
  but 
  it 
  differs 
  in 
  fruit 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  more 
  fibrous 
  struc- 
  

   ture 
  of 
  the 
  cup. 
  

  

  Peziza 
  scirpina 
  n. 
  sp. 
  

  

  Minute, 
  scattered, 
  erumpent, 
  glabrous, 
  black 
  externally, 
  

   paler 
  or 
  grayish 
  within 
  ; 
  asci 
  oblong 
  ; 
  spores 
  crowded, 
  fusi- 
  

   form, 
  straight 
  or 
  slightly 
  curved, 
  binucleate, 
  colorless, 
  

   .0008 
  / 
  -.001 
  / 
  long. 
  

  

  Dead 
  stems 
  of 
  Scirpus 
  ccespitosus. 
  Adirondack 
  Mount- 
  

   ains. 
  July. 
  

  

  Peziza 
  Pteridis 
  A. 
  & 
  S. 
  

  

  Dead 
  fern 
  stems. 
  North 
  Greenbush. 
  June. 
  

  

  Helotium 
  pileatum 
  n. 
  sp. 
  

  

  Sub 
  hemispherical 
  or 
  pileiform, 
  stipitate, 
  smooth, 
  whitish, 
  

   under 
  surface 
  flattened 
  and 
  slightly 
  pruinose 
  ; 
  stem 
  rather 
  

   long, 
  white, 
  pruinose 
  ; 
  spores 
  oblong, 
  hyaline, 
  .0004 
  / 
  -.0005 
  / 
  

   long. 
  

  

  Decaying 
  herbaceous 
  stems 
  in 
  wet 
  places. 
  Hunter, 
  Greene 
  

   county. 
  June. 
  (Plate 
  1, 
  figs. 
  11-14.) 
  

  

  The 
  fresh 
  plant, 
  which 
  is 
  scarcely 
  half 
  an 
  inch 
  high, 
  looks 
  

   like 
  some 
  very 
  small 
  white 
  Agaricus. 
  

  

  Helotium 
  salicellum 
  Fr. 
  

  

  Dead 
  willow 
  twigs. 
  Buffalo. 
  Clinton. 
  Dead 
  grape 
  vines. 
  

   Albany. 
  October. 
  

  

  Dermatea 
  cinnamomea 
  C. 
  & 
  P. 
  

  

  Subcsespitose, 
  erumpent, 
  subsessile, 
  surrounded 
  by 
  the 
  

   ruptured 
  epidermis, 
  somewhat 
  coriaceous, 
  externally 
  pul- 
  

   verulent, 
  cinnamon 
  colored, 
  margin 
  involute, 
  disk 
  brown, 
  

   nearly 
  plane, 
  somewhat 
  angular 
  when 
  dry 
  ; 
  asci 
  elongated- 
  

   clavate 
  ; 
  spores 
  narrowly 
  elliptical, 
  simple, 
  .0005' 
  long. 
  

  

  Dead 
  branches 
  of 
  poplars. 
  Shandaken. 
  June. 
  

  

  Patellaria 
  fusispora 
  G. 
  & 
  P. 
  

  

  Gregarious 
  immarginate, 
  dull 
  black, 
  orbicular, 
  regular, 
  

   convex, 
  lenticular, 
  somewhat 
  coriaceous 
  ; 
  asci 
  cylindrical, 
  

   attenuated 
  at 
  the 
  base; 
  spores 
  lanceolate, 
  uniseptate 
  

   at 
  first 
  with 
  each 
  cell 
  binucleate, 
  ultimately 
  brown, 
  

  

  