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out, in which it differs from the smooth Eumaria and 

 the ciliate-tomentose Scutellinia. 



Pelodiscus miniatios Clements. 



Ascoma camose, single, or in groups of two or three, 

 miniate, margin naked, sparsely clothed without, the 

 base excepted, with very short, continuous, flexuous, 

 pale dark yellow pila, 70-80x10 h-, hymenium concave 

 or plane, exactly circular, miniate, 1-2 mm. wide, 

 |-1 mm. high; asci 8-spored, clavate, not blue with 

 iodin, 250x15 /*; paraphyses septate, with a large red- 

 orange clava, 9-12 /*, filled with a red protoplasm 

 which turns a deep blue with iodin ; spores straight or 

 obliquely monostichous, elliptical, four often some- 

 what abortive and diverse, beautifully papillate, the 

 papillae 2-3 /« high, hyaline, 26-28x12-14 /*. 

 On stercorate mud, Beal's slough, Otowanie woods. 

 (12105) 



Pelodiscus pilisetu Clements. 



Ascoma camose, applanate, rarely concave, margin en- 

 tire, naked, luteo-fulvous, pila pointed, strict, sparse, 

 brown, 2-3-septate, attenuate at the base, 300-400x25 

 /t, hymenium bright luteo-fulvous, 1 cm. wide; asci 

 8-spored, cylindrical, not blue with iodin, 250x25 m ; 

 paraphyses septate, clavate, 4-5 m, clava 8 /* wide, 

 nearly colorless; spores large, broadly elliptical, 

 densely filled with polygonal granules, indistinctly 

 crenulate or verrucose, obliquely monostichous, 30x 

 16-18 H-. 

 On wet wood, Barney creek, Keya Paha county. 

 (12106) 



Sepultaria gigantea Clements 



Ascoma cupulate-hemispherical, 3-8 cm. wide and high, 

 hypogaeous, gregarious, opening widely, subcoriace- 

 ous, margin contorted, entire, strongly lacunose at 

 base, brown-ochraceous, densely clothed with septate, 

 flexuous, fuligineous pila, 250-700x17 as hymenium 



