Volutella gilva albo-pilosa Pound and Clements. 



On dead leaves of Ulmus falva, Weeping Water. (4546) 

 According to Saco. Fung. Ital., Pig. 728, the specimens in 

 the Survey collection are specifically distinct from V. 

 gilva. In Syll. Fung., Saccardo unites with F. gilva V. 

 intricata Karst., from which the specimens in hand differ 

 only in the atro- olivaceous, or nearly black sporodochium, 

 covered by the longer, inextricably interwoven, white 

 hairs. 



HELVELLiCEAE. 



Selvella grisea Clements. 



Pileus appressed, persistently bilobed, or sub-reniform, 

 scarcely inflated, reticulated beneath with numerous anas- 

 tomosing veins, pallid, hymenium pale brownish-gray; 

 stipe concolorous, or scarcely paler, glabrous, at first 

 longitudinally sulcate, then strongly lacunose-sulcate ; 

 asci cylindrical, 8-spored, 200-250x15 ft; sporidia broadly 

 elliptical, monostichous, 1-guttate, 18x10 fi; paraphyses 

 filiform, faeptate, hyaline, 4 fJ. wide. 



Pileas 1—2 cm. high, 1-2^ cm. wide; stipe l-|-3 cm. x 4—5 

 mm. 



On the ground, with Conooephalus conicus, Hazel Creek 

 canyons, Brown county. Related to S. palustris Peck, 

 and to H. palescens Schaeff., but distinguished by the 

 color and the persistently saddle-shaped pileus. 

 Helvella sulcata minor Clements. 



Pileus 2-3 mm., rarely 8 mm. wide, 2-5 mm. high; stipe 

 2-3 mm., rarely 10 mm. high, 1^-3^ mm. wide; sporidia 

 15x10 fi. 



On shady ground, Otowanie Woods, Lancaster county. 



PEZIZAOEAB. 



Peziza brunneo-vinosa Clements. 



Ascomata caespitose, sessile, at first cupuliform, at length 

 applanate, often exactly disciform and immarginate, mar- 



