g6 THE AMERICAN BOTANIST. 
Coprimis, stretched a shady road, passing through dense woods. 
One side of it was bordered by a high clay bank, on the other the 
ground descended steeply to a little brook, and on both sides grew 
a tangled mass of rhododendrons. Through the month of July 
the great laurels reigned supreme and little could be seen but the 
gorgeous flowers, but in August the clay bank turned out to be a 
treasure house of fungi. The pretty Peziza, Lachnea macropus, 
grew in numbers. Underwood has a drawing of it (Plate No. 
IV. page 230) in his books on ''Moulds, Mildews and Mush- 
rooms ;" but it gives no adequate idea of the grace and beauty of 
the plant. It is shaped like a delicate goblet of a grey color. Some 
of them were nearly three inches high and the caps measured one 
and one-half inches in width. Prof. Atkinson mentions two species 
of Sarcoscpyha. This is also a peziza, a sub-genus of Lachnea. 
I did not find at Pocono the species he describes, but another one 
named Sarcoscypha occidentalism which I sent tO' Mr. Ellis for 
identification. It grew in the center of a clump of moss and could 
not have measured more than a line in breadth. It had a slender 
stipe, which was white and smooth, in strong contrast to the 
bright scarlet cup. It must be a much smaller species than those 
that Atkinson mentioned and it grew later in the season. 
I found one species of Gnepinia. It resembled tiny pinkish 
clubs, peeping through the chinks of a piece of dead wood. This 
genus belongs to the Tremellineae and the plants are gelatinous in 
their nature. 
The mushrooms I have described, form but a small part of the 
many I found at Mt. Pocono last summer. There is no room in 
this paper even to mention by name the various species of RtLSS- 
itla, Lactarins, Hygrophonis, Mycena and Collyhia, or any of the 
more familiar Agarics. I leave to the last our most interesting 
discovery. We saw a mushroom growing on an old dead log, 
very diff'^rent in appearance from all we had hitherto seen. The 
color was grey, the shape was disc-like, the stem short and slend- 
er and the hymenium almost smooth. It was plainly not an 
Agaric. I sent it to Mr. J. B. Ellis and he pronounced it a new 
species of Ciboria, a subgenus of Peziza. The plants grew on 
dead wood. Mr. Ellis asked me to procure some more specimens 
