June, 1888 .] 
NEW FUNGI. 
cylindrical, substipitate, .25—30 x 5—6 /*, with abundant paraphyses; 
sporidia biseriate, oblong-elliptical, hyaline, continuous, 0—8 x 24/*. The 
stroma of the Diatrype and the adjacent bark is beset with erect, opaque, 
bristle-like hairs 250—300 /* long. 
Volutella c.onorum, E. & E.— On fallen cones of Magnolia glauca , 
Newfield, N. J., August, 1887. Disk sptneroid and milk white at first 
(4 mm.), finally plane, sessile, llesh color (4 mm.), surrounded by a fringe 
of slender (300—400 x 3—4 /•*), white, continuous, smooth hairs which are 
gradually attenuated above; conidia oblong-fusoid, hyaline, continuous, 
6—9 x 14—2/-*, simple; conidia subglobose, hyaline, 1—1 4/*, on continuous, 
straight, simple basidia 15—20 x 1—H A*. Differs from V. fusarioides , Pen- 
zig, in its smaller, straight conidia. 
Volutella citrina, E. & E.—On decaying pitchy wood of pine, 
Newfield, N. J., April, 1888. Sporodoehia turbinate-lentiform, sessile, 
4—1 mm. in diameter, margin laciniate-toothed, but the teeth not pro¬ 
longed into hairs, their projecting points barely visible under the lens; 
basidia 12—15 x 1 /*, abundant. The general appearance is that of a Helo- 
tium , for which it was at first mistaken. ^ 
Peziza (Cupulares) brachypus, E. & E.—On bare ground among 
oak bushes, Newfield, N. J., October, 1887. Shallow cup-shaped, regu¬ 
lar, 24 cm. across, pale chestnut color within, white and pruinose outside, 
stem short-cylindrical, 4 mm. long and thick, white, flesh of cup white, 
thin and brittle; asci 200 x 15—20 /*, cylindrical; paraphyses stout, thick¬ 
ened above, apices 6—10/* thick; sporidia uniseriate, elliptical, 18—20 x 
12—14/*, epispore distinctly roughened when mature. Allied to P. am- 
plispora , C. & P., but distinguished by its smaller rough sporidia, club- 
shaped paraphyses and very regular cup not at all rugulose below. The 
stem, though short, is very distinct and is not enlarged above but cylin¬ 
drical and smooth (or at least not rugulose or lacunose). The outer cup 
does not present a smooth continuous membrane but is innate tomen- 
tose, i. e. as if the thin white flesh were composed of tomentum closely 
compressed and presenting an even though not a strictly continuous sur¬ 
face. The plant shrinks much in drying. There is some resemblance 
to P. macropus , Pers., but that has longer, narrower spores and a longer 
stem, not to mention other points of difference. Only a single specimen 
was found. 
Peziza (Dasysc.) solenleformis, E. & E.—On decaying wood, 
Cazenovia, N. Y., October, 1887. Underwood & Cook. Gregarious, 
brownish, briefly stipitate, hemispheric cup-shaped at lirst and almost 
closed by the incurved margin, then expanding to nearly plane, hairy 
outside and margin fringed with simple, septate, straight white hairs 
which are mostly a little roughened at the tip ; disk dull white, inclining 
to yellowish or watery flesh color, 4—1 mm across; asci about 40 x 3—34 
/*, clavate-cylindrical, straight and overtopped by the rather obtusely- 
pointed, stout paraphyses; sporidia subbiseriate, clavate-oblong, hyaline, 
continuous, 5—8 x 24 A* (exceptionally 10—12 /* long). The cups appear 
« 
/ 
