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hymenium brownish-olivaceous, flesh turning green when- 

 wounded, milk grayish-green, 5-10 mm. wide; asci cylin- 

 drical, turning blue with iodine, 250-300x12-14 /i; spor- 

 idia ellipsoid, 1-2-guttate, irregularly disposed, smooth, 

 15x18 [i; paraphyses linear, scarcely, oi not at all, incras- 

 sate, multiseptae, hyaline, 5-7 fi wide. 



On shady ground, Otowanie Woods, Lancaster county. 

 Barlaea constellatio miniifa Clements. 



Ascomata generally immarginate, convex, aurantiaceouSr 

 rarely reddening with age, -J-J mm., rarely as much as 1 

 mm., in diam. 



On wet ground. Rock Creek, Keya Paha county. 

 Humaria clausa Clements. 



Ascomata caespitose, carnose, subglobose, or nearly hemis- 

 pherical, mouth somewhat hysteriform, gaping slightly, 

 pruinulose, drab, £-2 mm., wide; asci clavate, 8-spored,, 

 250x35//; sporidia large, oblong, smooth, hyaline, egut- 

 tulate, 32-37xl2|-16/i; paraphyses densely packed, fili- 

 form, scarcely incrarsate above. 



On moist ground, Otowanie Woods, Lancaster county. 



Humaria phycopMla Clements. 



Ascomata very minute, sessile, scutellate. at length con- 

 vex, gregarious, margin entire; hymenium incarnate, or 

 miniate-aurantiaceous, paler without, '300-500/i in diam. ; 

 asci clavate-cylindrical, obliquely operculate, 8-spored, 

 not turning blue with iodine, 60-67x9-15//; sporidia 

 elliptical, obliquely monostichous, or often distichous, 

 slightly truncate at both ends, generally 1-guttate, smooth, 

 hyaline, 10-11, rarely 12^, by 6-7^ /( ; paraphyses filiform, 

 furcate above, stuffed with orange granules, strongly re- 

 curved at the apex, 1-2 fi in diam 



Among filaments of Lynghya on moist ground, Beatrice. A 

 true Humaria, though in some degree related to 

 Ascophanus. 



