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which lire much like those of the Peziza only a little larger. In drying, 

 the plant shrinks down to a mere white speck. Much resembles a Cypli- 

 ella, but the cylindrical boaies containing the spores seem to us to be 

 genuine asci. The plant appears to belong in the section Mollisia. 



Peziza (Humaria) Cestrica, E. &E.— On the ground among moss, 

 West Cheste-r, Pa.. Aug. 28, 1885. B. M. Everhart, Xo. 512. Csespitose, 

 orange yellow, soft, sessile, orbicular or somewhat irregular from mutual 

 pressure, about i cm. diameter, concave, with the disk subplicate in the 

 center, smooth or slightly pruinose outside, margin obtuse, texture 

 coarsely vesiculose. Asci C3dindrical, sessile, 1:5—125 x 7 — 8/^-, Para- 

 pliyses rather abruptly thickened, yellow and curved at the tips. Sporidia 

 uniseriate, occupying the upper half of the asci, coarsely echinulate- 

 roughened, binucleate and with a short, straiglit apiculus at each end, 

 length including the apiculns 11— 11^^ /^-, breadth 4—5 !k 



Peziza Chceteri, Sm., has sporidia much like this, only w^anting the 

 appendages. 



Patellaria stjbyelata, E. & E.— On bark of living coniferous 

 trees, Wash. Terr. W. Suksdorf {No. 210). Com. C. J. Sprague. 

 Subcuticular at first, at length exposed, about i- mm. diameter, black, 

 thin, margin obscure. Asci 50—60 x 14—16 ; paraphyses yellowish, 

 bearing at their tips numerous subgiobose, small, dark brown conidia 

 which form the superficial layer of the disk. Sporidia clavate-fusoid, 

 slightly curved, broadest and rounded above, running almost to a point 

 below, yellowish, eudochrome about 4 times divided, 25—30 x 3-? — 4 p-. 

 The general appearance is much like that of Sphreria sqiiamata, C. & E. 



This and the preceding species stand on the boundary line between 

 lichens and fungi, but for the present at least, we include them here. 



Patellaria Carolinensis, E. & E. — On bleached wood, So. Caro- 

 lina. H. W. liavenel, 680. Sessile, orbicular, black, roughish, 1-6—*^ 

 mm., convex when moist, plane and concave when dry, margin obsolete. 

 Asci oblong, 40 — 45 x 8 — 10 /^-, broadest and rounded above, abruptly con- 

 tracted below into a short, stipitate base ; paraphyses abundant, stout, 

 overtopping the asci, much branched above, their tips bearing brown, 

 subgiobose conidia which form a continuous layer and give a dark color 

 to the disk. Sporidia 8 in an ascus, filiform-cylindrical, multisepiate, 

 pale yellowish, rather broader at the upper end and nearly as long as the 

 asci. 



Patellaria leucoch^tes, E. & E.— On basal sheaths of dead 

 Andropogon, ]^ewfield, IST. J., Xov. 1885. Appearing at first in the form 

 of minute tufts of spreading, white hairs, in the midst of which soon 

 appears the soft, orange-colored, convex-tuberculiform, immarginate 

 hymeuium, i — f in diameter. Asci oblong-cylindrical, 75 — 85 x 13—15 

 /^-, sessile and surrounded by simple paraphyses only slightly thickened 

 above. Sporidia fasciculate, cylindrical, nearly hyaline, nucleate and 

 soon faintly multiseptate and slightly constricted at the septa, 75—80 x 4 



