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pseudo-prosenchymatous toward the margin. On decayed culms of 
Carex, Blue Mounds, June 1904 (no. 424, R. A. and A. M. Harper). 
H. fiavotingens B. & By. differs especially in its cyathiform apothe- 
cium and the yellow mycelium. 
Pyronema ompfoalodes (Bull.) Feld. 
On burned places, Eagle Heights, August 1903; Devil’s lake, August 
1906; Hale's woods, Mauston, August 1909 (Dodge). 
Aleuria aurantia (Mueller) Fckl. 
Star lake, August 1909 (Overton), Morgan vid.; Blue Mounds, Sep¬ 
tember 1903, Rehm vid.; Blue Mounds, September 1904; Madison, June 
1909 (Overton); Madison (no. 30, Harper), Morgan vid.; Schmeiling’s 
woods, Algoma, September 1909 (Dodge). 
Alenria bicucallata Boud. 
The spores are very characteristic, being reticulately warted, and 
each end is provided with a cap-like appendage as figured by Boudier, 
Hoc. Bot., 28: 93. pi. 3, fig. 1, 1881. In Wisconsin forms the paraphyses 
are usually bent at right angles instead of being straight. On the 
ground roadsides, Mile Bluff, Mauston, June 1909 (Dodge), Rehm 
vid. 
Alenria Wiscon sinensis Rehm {Ann. Myc., 2: 34, 19 04). 
Apothecia gregarious, sessile, patelliform, contracted at the base to 
form a slightly stipe-like elongation, margin thick and entire, at 
length folded, the disk plane, flat, finally sinuous, red, the exterior 
pale fuscous, the context of the excipulum parenchymatous and sub¬ 
hyaline, provided with single hyaline septate pileiform hyphae made 
up of large cells, 150x10 mic., the disk 0.5—2 cm. in diameter, fleshy, 
when dry more or less contorted, rose colored, the excipulum whitish, 
mealy. Asci cylindrical, rounded at the apex, about 200x10 mic., 8- 
spored. Spores ellipsoid, epispore broadly areolate, capped at each 
end, the upper end with a very short appendage, often doubly crenate 
the lower end with a filiform appendage, one-celled, often stuck together, 
generally containing two large oil globules, hyaline, 14—15x7 
mic., monostichous. Paraphyses hyaline, filiform, septate, 3 mic., at 
the apex evem 5 mic. thick. I—. Madison, October 1899 (no. 322, R. 
A. and A. M. Harper). 
“Nearest A. bicucullata Bond., but it differs plainly in the orange 
color of the excipulum and the much smaller size and the spores never 
warty areolate.” Further collections which I have examined agree 
well with No. 322, but in my opinion the species is nearest to Aleu¬ 
ria aurantia and perhaps should not be distinguished from it. Miss 
