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species which shows that the peridium becomes at length entirely smooth 

 and then of a lighter color. 



ScHizoxYLON OCCIDENT ALE, E. & E.— Perithecia gregarious or 

 nearly so, depressed globose, white with a round, black disk or epithe- 

 cium which is scarcely perforated. Hymenium cup-shaped, yellowish 

 horn-color, of a waxy consistence. Asci very long, 200—300 A and over 

 by 6—8 !J- wide, 8-spored, surrounded with numr-rous filiform, nucleolate 

 paraphyses w^hich are rather more slender than the long, filiform, sporidia 

 which are nearly as long as the asci, 2i— 3i IJ- thick, somewhat attenuated 

 above, multiseptate, hyaline, constricted at every alternate septum 

 where they readily separate into short (6—15 cylindrical segments 

 with the ends rounded with a single septum across the middle. Possibly 

 this may not be distinct from S. alboatrum, Kehm. Ascom. 478. The 

 outward appearance is much the same, but that species is said to have 

 sporidia multicellular, fragile, almost as if articulated (' fere ut articu- 

 lata") and 180 x 2 p-. If the same. Dr. Rehm's specimens must be imma- 

 ture. From S. Berkeley anum, Dur. & Lev. the Utah specimens differ 

 in having the sporidia twice as thick. 



Ch^tomium VELUTmuM, E. & E.— Perithecia ovate, membrana- 

 ceous, gregarious and more or less confluent, covered with a dense, even, 

 velvety C( -at of rough, olive-black hairs, of which the apical ones are 

 nearly straight and coarser, while those towarc the base are finer and 

 somewhat branched. Sporidia almond-shaped, brown, 11—12x6—7 l^-. 

 The asci were already dissolved so that their shape could not be seen. 

 The general aspect is that of Sphceria hirsuta, Fr,, but the hairy coat is 

 more dense and even. On a damp maple log, Aug. 1884, Carpenter, no. 98. 



BuLGAKiA STRIATA, E. & E.— Imperfectly obconic, about 1 mm. 

 high and 2—3 mm. broad, purplish liver-color with a flesh-colored tint, 

 margin obtuse, slightly incurved and striate when dry. Asci 150 x 7 

 with a long, slender base. Paraphyses abundant, filiform, scarcely thick- 

 ened above. Sporidia biseriate in the upper part of the asci, fusiform- 

 oblong, slightly curved, 12 — 14 x 3 — 3i /^-, with the endochrome imperfectly 

 divided in the middle (probably becoming 1-septate). The whole when 

 fresh is of a coriaceo-gelatinous texture, the receptacle showing much 

 the same structure as in Tremella. The striate margin and more regular 

 shape will distinguish this from B. sarcoides, Fr. On rotten wood, 

 November, 1884. 



Peziza (Otidea) doratophora, E. &E.— Subcsespitose, subglobose, 

 with a small, circular opening at first, at length expanding but mostly 

 one-sided, rufous or chestnut brown and echinate-granulose outside 

 and narrowed below into a short subplicate base, disk darker when 

 fresh. Asci subcylindrical, sessile, 50—60 x 6—7 The paraphyses con- 

 sist of a thread-like base bearing a brown, lanceolate-cylindrical abruptly 

 pointed head which is 20—30 M long by 3—4 thick and at length 1—2- 

 septate and easily separates from the slender base. Sporidia biseriate, 

 elliptical, 2-nucleate, subfuscous, 6—10 x 3—4 ^. The fibrose-cellular 



