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Asci Toa vel oblongi, obtusi, 70-90 x 45-50 p, 2-4-spori. 
Spore varie bee cS T ellipsoideæ, utrinque acutæ, leves, 
foke, Ml 30-35 6-20 u, mature brunneo-nigræ, sub- 
opacæ, nitentes, utraque g y mediam crassam includens. 
Underground, in sandy soil, Rodway, 119. 
Avery fine and distinct species, 1:5—2:5 cm. in diameter, remark- 
able for the very large lemon-shaped spores, which are quite 
smooth, clear brown, and translucent when young, finally becoming 
blackish-brown and opaque. When quite young the asci are 
almost globose, then py minh or obovate, and finally more or less 
ju with age, the arrangement of the spores varying with the 
orm of the ascus. Wall of ascus thick except at one point at the 
apex; it does not turn blue with iodine. Substance of the gleba 
consisting entively of hyaline, sparsely septate, thin- walled, 
intricately — m hyphe. Not closely allied to any 
described specie 
Hymenogaster rer Massee (sp. nov.). Peridium globoso- 
difforme, sat irregulare, carnosulum, sericeum, albidum, demum 
lutescens. Gleba firma, compacta, demum obscure brunnea, 
cellulis minutis irregularibus e basi sterili ad peripheriam obscure 
directis. Basidia clavata, 2-sterigmatica, sterigmatibus brevi ibus 
-8 u. Spore ellipticæ vel limoniformes, apice apiculate, 
basi subtruncate, longitudinaliter ridi ier vel carinatz, initio 
ochracez, dein flavo-brunne:, 20 x 10-12 y 
ong buried twigs, Hobart, Rodway, 116. 
Gro wing underground, irregular, 2-3 em. in diameter, white, 
becoming dingy yellow when dry. Per vetu very distinct. Gleba 
compact, cavities init irregular in form, showing an indistinct 
tendency to radiate from the sterile base medica the periphery of 
the fungus. Sterile base iens, op T a min giving off branching veins 
penetrating the gleba, which bec s dark brown at maturity. 
Basidia usually with two Stori diisto Shatin however only a 
single sterigma is present. Spores elliptical or lemon-shaped, 
apex apiculate, nr icem mts at the point MN 
to the attachment of the sterigma ; longitudinally bed, ribs 
ge or fortod: and iito, strong, radon at the 
- MUN nearly approaching H. decorus, Tul. ; the latter however 
iffers in the violet tinge of the gleba, the narrow basidia, very 
in eanaplinn ous sterile base, and larger spores, which lack the 
strong longitudinal ribs ornamenting the epispore of the present 
speci 
es. 
Hymenogaster albellus, Mass. ot Rodw. (sp. nov.). Peridium 
globosum, irregulare, subglabrum, album, demum pallidum, tenu- 
issimum, nec separabile. Gleba pallide brunnea, firmula, eallalia 
majusculis e pulvinulo basilari sterili minuto albido subradiantibus. 
Basidia clavata, haud raro furcata vel irregularia, 1-4-, plerumque 
2-, medie iie sterigmatibus longiusculis. Spore elliptico-fusi- 
formes v riformes, vulgo utrinque y eygen flavee, maturitate 
flavo-b B verruculose 16-17 x 8-9 p 
Subterranean, Rodway, 117. 
Irregularly subglobose, white, 2-3 cm. in diameter. Age closely 
allied to H. /ener, Berk., but readily distinguished b e larger 
eavities of the gleba, much less conspicuous sterile sii rae the 
