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H. cxTRiNUii (Hedw.) Fr. 



On wet dead log. Short Creek, alt. i,8oo ft. Sept. 12, 

 1893 {Nnttall, 1201). 



H. CASTANEUM SaCC. 



On leaves of Rhododendron maximum. Short Creek, alt. 

 1,800 ft. Sept. 12, 1893 {Nuttall, 1206). 

 H. EPHiPHYLLUM (Pers.) Fr. 



On decaying leaves, twigs, etc. (Sheldon, 3428). 

 H. PHYLLOPHiLUM Desm. 



On decaying- leaves (Sheldon, 3363). 



H. FRUCTIGENUM Rehm. 



On dead wood, leaves, chestnut bur and acorn (Sheldon, 

 3470). 



H. FRATERNUM Peck. 



(Sheldon. 3377). 



PHIALEA Fr. 

 P. SCUTULA (Pers.) Gill. 



On decaying herbaceous stems (Slieldoii, 3514). 

 P. CYATHOIDES (Bull.) Gill. 



(Sheldon. 3544). 

 P. VIRGULTORUM (Vahl.) Sacc. 



On old grape twigs on wet ground. Asci 105 x 7.5 /.i. 

 Spores 18 X 4 /u.. Nov. i, 1894 (Nuttall, 1735). (Sheldon, 

 1080). 



PSEUDOHELOTIUJM Fckl. 



P. FIBRISEDUM (B. & C.) SaCC. 



On wet dead wood of Jnglans cinerea.'Dec. 5, 1894. More 

 than 2 mm. diameter, margin ciliate, red-maculate ; asci 

 oblong short-stipitate, total length 65 x 7.5 fi. (approx.). 

 paraphyses filiform. Spores hyaline i-septate ( ?) oblong, 

 straight or slightly curved, 12 to 18 x 3 ju, (A^iittall. 1764). 



CYATHICULA De Not. 



C. ouiSQUiLiARis E. & E., Proc. Phila. Acad., 451 (1893). 



Type h.-vbitat: On dead racemes of Quercus Prinus, on 

 dead leaves, on rock in woods, April 2, 1893 (AUiffall. discov. 

 941). 



Gregarious, sessile, i to 1.5 mm. diameter, cup-shaped, 

 disk pale with a tinge of brick color when dry, dull, dirty- 

 white and purpuraceo-squamulose outside, margin distinctly 

 cleft-toothed and incurved when dry. Asci cylindrical, sub- 

 sessile, 55 to 65 X 6 to 7 (u, with filiform paraphyses scarcely 

 thickened above. Sporidia uniseriate, or sub-biseriate above, 

 elliptical, hyaline, continuous, 6 to 8 x 3 to 4 /x. 



