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a spiral manner, and being, in fact, the different sections or joints into 

 which the spirally coiled, cylindrical conidia have separated. Appa- 

 rently these joints or segments were at first contained in a tubular mem- 

 brane which has now dissolved, being more evanescent than the mem- 

 brane enveloping the entire coil, which still persists and appears even 

 more distinct than at first, in the form of a subglobose sack or ascus. 

 In the examination of the fresh specimens the spirally coiled conidia 

 seemed to be attached laterally to upright, simple threads or hyphse, but 

 we would not be positive of this. The genus is evidently allied to Cylin- 

 drocolla. 



SPH^KOCEEAS, Sacc. & Ell., Mich, II, p. 502.— Sporodochia super- 

 ficial, globose or hemispherical, compact. Hyphse or sporophoresclosely 

 fasciculate, filiform, very long, continuous, simple. Conidia large, globose- 

 ellipsoid, continuous, hyaline, adhering to the sporophores by a long, cus- 

 pidate tail or pedicel. A very distinct genus but of doubtful affinity 

 approaching Aegerita on one side and Nmnatelia on the other. 



S. PUBESCENs, S. & E.— Sporodochia subglobose, yellowish, (white 

 when fresh), .5—1 mm. in diameter, clothed with acicular, continuous, 

 scattered hairs about 60 x 2 /^-. Hyphse very long, densely radiate, fas- 

 ciculate. Conidia obovate, 25—30 x 20—22 p-, hyaline, with a single 

 nucleus and covered with a thick (2 !J-) hyaline membrane and gradually 

 narrowed below into a hyaline cusp or pedicel by which it is attached to 

 the hyphse or sporophores. Apparently very rare. Found only in a sin- 

 gle locality under the roots of an old cedar stump partly overturned, on 

 decaying fragments of wood and wet leaves appearing like a small, white 

 Peziza on a speck of white mold. Under this particular stump it has 

 been found sparingly for several years, but nowhere else. 



GRANULAKIA, AVilld. emend. — Sporodochia (peridia ?) globose, 

 bright-colored, rather soft, composed of hyphae and hyaline, filiform spo- 

 rophores densely, radiately compacted. Spores (conidia V) ovoid, continu- 

 ous, hyaline, terminal. A genus allied on one side to the Gasteromycetes, 

 and on the other to the Hyphomycetes, more closely to the latter. 



G. EUKOTioiDES, S. & E.— Sporodochia subglobose, adnate-superfi- 

 cial, i— I mm. in diameter, pale-yellowish, smooth, subcarnose. Hyphae 

 densely compacted, filiform, variously subramose, continuous, hyaline, 

 5/^ thick. Conidia ovoid, hyaline, 3i — 4 x 2i /^-, acrogenous. On the 

 substance of a broken specimen of Pachyma cocos, Schw., lying on the 

 ground, i^ewfield, N. J., autumn, 18S0. 



HAIXESIA, Ell. &:Sacc. , Syll. III. p. 698.— Acervuh subcuticular but 

 soon erumpent, pulvinate, minute, phyllogenous, bright-colored, mostly 

 yellowish-red, subtremelloid. Conidia oblong or suballantoid, continu- 

 ous, hyaline, terminal and lateral, on filiform basidia which are often 

 fasciculately branched. 



Dedicated to the late Wm. T. Haines, Esq., of West Chester, Pa., 

 distinguished alike for his legal attainments and his love of Natural 

 Science. 



