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the nature of thickenings or cracks such as those found in some 
of the Ascobolaceae but are light and dark bands extending from 
one end of the spore to the other but not roughening its surface, 
at least so far as can be determined. The width of the bands 
varies in different species. This character seems to be more com- 
mon in tropical ascomycetes than in temperate and northern spe- 
cies, having also been observed by the writer in several of the tropi- 
cal Hypocreales. It has also been mentioned by Doctor Thaxter 
in the genus IVynnea which genus is tropical although one species 
runs up into the northern United States. There may be no 
significance in this coincidence but it is sufficiently striking to de- 
serve mention. All of the species examined in the present genus 
have either fasciculate hairs or striate spores or both ; all are 
bright colored, more or less stipitate, of a tough consistence, grow 
on wood and have a similar distribution. 
The genus Phillipsia which is treated in this paper shows a 
very close relationship with Cookeina. One species of the genus 
has been frequently collected in the West Indies and until re- 
cently has been filed away in our collections as an unnamed spe- 
cies of Sarcoscypha. In fact the plants very closely resemble our 
Sarcoscypha coccinea. The color of the hymenium is darker be- 
ing reddish-purple instead of scarlet and the spores are unequal- 
sided and marked with the striations referred to in connection 
with Cookeina. The great variability in the stem and other gross 
characters has doubtless led to the multiplication of synonyms in 
this species. The genus Phillipsia was based on specimens in 
which the stem was almost wanting and had the nature of the 
plant been fully appreciated it is possible that the species might 
have been included with the preceding genus. Berkeley in de- 
scribing Peziza domingensis, tyi>e of the genus Phillipsia, says, — 
“ Though not oblique, it seems to be nearest to such species as 
P. onotica, or perhaps the two pedunculate species which follow 
[Peziza Hystrix and Peziza Hindsii].” This is the only refer- 
ence seen which bears upon the relationship of Phillipsia and 
Cookeina. The striation of the spores is a character common to 
both genera but one which has apparently been overlooked, for it 
is not usually mentioned in the descriptions of any of the species 
of either genus except Peziza striispora Ellis & Everhart, which 
is here included as a synonym of Cookeina Tricholoma. 
