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■Sepultaria (Scutellinia) rubro-purpurea Clements, 



Ascomata at first urceolate, then cupulate, very rarely some- 

 what scutellate, without brownish-fuliginous, very densely 

 covered with rigid, concolorous, many-septate hairs, 

 rounded at the apex, 150-200x8-10 fi, margin scarcely 

 distinctly ciliate, hymenium bright red-purple, 3-5 mm. 

 in diam. ; asci cylindrical, turning bright green with iodine, 

 250x15-18 fjt; sporidia ellipsoid, verrucose, 2-guttate, 

 monostichous, 23-25x12^ jj.; paraphyses septate, red- pur- 

 ple, 3-4 fi wide, abruptly incrassate above, 7 p. wide. 



On the sandy banks of a brook. Hazel Creek Canyons, Brow^ 

 county. Related to S. cubensis (Berk.). 

 Pseudohelotium isabellinum Clements. 



Ascoma cupulate, stipitate, margin thick, often flexuous; 

 hymenium concave, isabel-colored, or pale fulvous, paler 

 beneath, puberulent with short hairs, 25-40x8-10 ft, ^2 

 mm. in dlam. ; stipe short, ^-|- mm. ; asci cylindrical, not 

 turning blue with iodine, 75-95x6-7 fi, sporida oblong, 

 monostichous, 7-12^x5 //; paraphyses densely filled with 

 large oil-drops. 



On wet twigs, Rock Creek, Keya Paha county. 

 Mollisia lilacina Clements. 



Ascomata gregarious, sessile, disciform, lilac or pale livid, 

 testaceous when dry, paler beneath, margin elevated, 

 white-crenulate, ^1 mm. in diam. ; asci small, clavate, 

 stipitate, 30-40x3-4 [i; sporidia cylindrical, straight or 

 curved, 1-3-guttato, or spuriously septate, distichous or 

 monostichous, 7-10x1^-2 /4; paraphyses cylindrical, gran- 

 ular, 2 [I wide. 



On bark of Ulmus americana, Wabash ; on decaying twigs, 

 Bellevue, Beatrice, Nebraska City. 

 Trichopeziza Candida Clements. 



Ascomata caespitose, sessile, waxy, tenacious, broadly in- 

 fundibuliform, or scutellate, pure white within and with- 



