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This species is related to the last, but the characters may be 
contrasted as follows: 
5 . rufum. — Watery-gelatinous, turbinate or stipitate, at¬ 
tached by a narrow point, shrinking much in drying, becoming 
brittle and thin, the exterior much wrinkled, color usually chang¬ 
ing, spores narrowly elliptical. Cortex parenchymatous. 
6 '. carolinianum. — Tough-gelatinous, sessile by a broad base, 
changing but little in drying, becoming thick and corky, spores 
larger and broader proportionally. No parenchymatous cortex. 
That the tougher substance of the present species when fresh 
is not due to dry weather conditions is shown by the fact that my 
own collection was made after two weeks of continuous rain and 
mist. 
Sarcosoma cyttarioides Rehm sp. nov.— Plants usually 
solitary but often 2-3 together, sessile, attached by a very narrow 
base; when young very small, closed, then opening by a minute 
pore above, enlarging and expanding, finally becoming plane or 
convex, the mature plant shaped like a biconvex lens, but some¬ 
what more prominently convex below; disk dull black, usually 
with a .dimple in the center; margin slight but distinct; externally 
black, more or less wrinkled or rugose, furfuraceous not tomen- 
tose, 1.5-3.5 cm. in diam., 1-2 cm. high; consistency spongy-gela¬ 
tinous like soft rubber, substance greenish-yellow. Excipulum 
composed of very slender, long-drawn-out hyphse, passing at the 
surface into a thin cortex of brown rounded cells, 8-10/* in diam., 
projecting in groups. Asci slenderly cylindrical, apex rounded, 
not blue with iodine, 300-350 x 15 u ; spores 8, uniseriate, hyaline 
continuous, smooth, narrowly elliptical, 25-30 x 12-14//- ; paraphy- 
ses filiform, branched, yellow, cohering at the tips which are not 
yellow. 
On dead stems of Kalmia, less commonly on oak, vitis and 
chestnut; also on leaves of chestnut, rhododendron etc.; observed 
also on living stems of Kalmia and chestnut near the ground. 
Thickets on the mountain side, alt. 3,5°° ft., Blowing Rock, N. 
Carolina, Aug., 1901, Durand; found also by A. B. Troyer. 
(C. U. Herb. nos. 12278, 12279, 12280, 12281, 12282). Most 
abundant in Glen Burney. 
The plants shrink very much in drying, and the disk becomes 
cinereous-olive. A beautifully distinct species. “Innerlich dem 
N. platydiscus und rufum nahe stehend.” 
Note: Bulgaria globosa Fr. is reported by Schweinitz, p. 178, but 
the specimen preserved in his herbarium is certainly not that species as 
described by Rehm and Karsten, and probably does not differ from Sar¬ 
cosoma rufum. 
Botanical Department, Cornell University. 
