FROM THE JURA AND THE VOSGES. 
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Feziza (IMfollisia) opalina. Q. — Discoidal-lentiform (1 mm.), 
waxy, firm, smooth, diaphonous, hyaline or lilac ; hymenium plane, 
lilac or glaucous, amethyst- colour when dry ; sporidia bacilliform 
(*012 mm.) 
Spring. On submerged sticks on the edges of the turf-bogs of 
Alsace. 
Lachnella lactea. (?.— Cupule - shaped, oval - spherical (l-*2 
mm.), firm, rough, with a fine, white, silky web, composed of 
toothed hairs ; hymenium white, then cream-colour ; sporidia 
acicular (-015 mm.), pluriseptate. 
Spring. Gregarious on large plants in the lower hills of the Jura. 
(Confounded with Cyphella villosa, under the name of Peziza 
villosa, P.) 
Ascophanus ruber. Q. — Globular - hemispherical (1 mm.), 
orange-red then brick-red, rough with long fine shining white 
hairs ; hymenium plane, papillose ; sporidia oblong-elliptic (*02 
mm.), hyaline, with a nucleus. 
Spring. Gregarious on cow-dung in the pastures of the Jura. 
Differs from Ascobolus ciliatus, Schm., by not having a white 
margin, and by its colourless sporidia. 
Note. — A n illustrative plate will be given in a succeeding number. 
NEW YORK FUNGI. 
By M. C. Cooke. 
The following few specimens from the State of New York were 
communicated by W. R. Gerard, Esq. : — 
Merulius ambiguus. Berk, in N. A. Fungi. 
On trunks. No. 252. 
Scleroderma geaster. Fr. 
Subterranean form. No. 248. 
Coniothyrum rubellum. Che. 
Sparsum. Peritheciis membranaceis, parvulis, brunneis, in ma- 
culis roseis nidulantibus. Sporis ovoideis, pallido-fuscis (*005 
X ‘003 mm.) 
On naked wood. No. 259. 
Discosia artocreas. Besm. 
On acorns. No. 244. 
Sphaeropsis gallorum. Scliwz. 
On galls of Celtis. No. 251. 
Diplodia celastri. Cke. 
Csespitosa, erumpens. Peritheciis atris, compressis, elongatis, 
vix papillatis. Sporis ellipticis, uniseptatis, brunneis, vix con- 
strictis (*025 x ’01 mm.) 
On twigs of Celastrus. 
No. 240. 
