NEW SPECIES OP FUNGI. 



In the following descriptions of new species, Saccardo's 

 Chromotaxia has beea faithfully followed. All color-names con- 

 form to his charts and to the synonymic lists on p. 6ff. 



M0OOEACEAE. 



Thamnidium [Helicostylum) cyaneum Pound and Clements. 



Terminal sporangium, sporangiophore, and lateral branches 

 as in T. glomeratum; sporangiola borne on the lateral 

 branches, numerous, 30—50, globose or pear-shaped, nod- 

 ding on deflexed stalks 100x3-5 //, without columella, steel- 

 blue, 35-45 // in diam., 15-85-spored; spores ellipsoid or 

 ovate, smooth, blue, in age pale blue, 12-15x8-10 /z. 



On horse-dung, with Piptocephalis, and Circinella, Lincoln. 

 (4493) 



SPHAEKIOIDEAE. 



Cytospora celastri Clements. 



Perithecia innate, densely aggregated, globulose, ostiole 

 short, erumpent, shorter than the perithecium; spore- 

 masses linear, flexuose-contorted, golden-yellow; conidia 

 hyaline, strongly curved, often semi-circular, obtuse, or 

 acute, 15-20x1 fi. 



In dead stems of Celastrus scandens, Otowanie Woods. 

 (4742) 



MDCEDINACEAE. 



Ehinotrichum doliolum Pound and Clements. 



Effused, white, compact, velvety, gray, or drab; sporophore 

 ascending, much branched; filaments hyaline, tortuous, 

 many septate, 5 fx wide, thickly beset with bottle-shaped 

 basidia, 7-8x3-4 //, generally opposite, rarely alternate; 



