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sessile, but there is a distinct though short stipe just long enough to 
raise them fairly above the surface of the wood. When dry they are 
contracted and nearly closed. The marginal hairs are 70—80 !>■ long and 
about 3 !>■ thick and under the microscope are—at least their lower half— 
yellowish-brown. Substance quite soft. Since found in Ohio by Prof. 
Morgan. 
Peziza (Mollisia) Fairmani, E. & E.—On inner surface of bark 
lying on the ground, Lyndonville, N. Y., April, 1888. Dr. C. E. Fair- 
man. Centrally attached, sessile, gregarious, concave with the margin 
subincurved at first, then expanding to plane or slightly convex, i—t 
mm. in diameter; disk livid, margin paler and like the outside of the 
receptacle clothed with short, hyaline, obtuse, glandular hairs, which 
become darker and more strongly developed towards the base; asci clav- 
ate-cylindrical, sessile, paraphysate, 35—40 x 5—6 !>-\ sporidia subbiseri¬ 
ate. ovate-elliptical, hyaline, continuous, lower end more acute, 34—44 x 
2—24 ! J -. When dry the disk is nearly closed by the incurved margin. 
Peziza (Mollisia) glagosa, E, & E. (Gr., glagao.) — On a fallen 
leaf not much decayed, in the swamp, Newfield, X. J., August 7, 1887. 
Minute (250—275 ,"•), round, sessile, smooth, milk white, becoming sub- 
rufous or amber color when dry ; asci 70—75 x 7—8 /•*, gradually attenu¬ 
ated to the base; paraphyses abundant, filiform, not distinctly thickened 
above; sporidia biseriate or crowded above, oblong or clavate-oblong, 
mostly a little curved, hyaline, with or without nuclei and some of them 
showing indications of one or two septa, 80—10 x 24—3 />-. 
Patellarta cenangiicola, E. & E.—Parasitic on Cenangium 
turgidum , Schw., on living Quercus cocciiiea, Newfield, N. J., April 30, 
1888. Sessile, subgregarious, patelliform, disk concave (when dry), dull 
olive green, margin acute, suberect, outside paler, about 1 mm. in diam¬ 
eter (t—H mm.); asci broad clavate-cylindrical, 75—80x 12—15//; paraph¬ 
yses indistinct; sporidia crowded, biseriate, subnavicular, clavate-fu- 
soid, nearly hyaline, granular, becoming 1-septate, 30—40 x 7—9 /-*. 
Helotium lacteum, E. & E.—On dead wood, Cazenovia, N. Y., 
October, 1887. Prof. L. M. Underwood and O. F. Cook, Jr. Gregari¬ 
ous, stipitate, tomentose, milk white throughout, head plano-convex, 
subimmarginate, minutely tomentose outside, about 4 mm. across; stem 
cylindrical, equal, short (150 /'■ high and thick), tomentose; asci cylin- 
drical-clavate, 75 x 6—7 /-*, with linear or filiform paraphyses ; sporidia 
biseriate, fusoid, nucleate, slightly curved, ends acute, 15—17 x 24—3 /*, 
hyaline. 
Helotium strumosum, E. <fc E.—On old Dichcena strumosa, Fr., 
Newfield, N. J., December, 1887. Gregarious, sessile, bright lemon yel¬ 
low, closed and subspherical at first, then open, cup-shaped and finally 
expanding to nearly plane, one-sixth to one-third mm. in diameter, 
tomentose-pubescent outside and attached to the matrix by fine white 
