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ТНК WEST VIRGINIA FLORA above so as to make a marginal fringe of pale yellow, roughish straight hairs. Asci clavate-cylindrical, sessile, curved, 50 to 60 X 5 to 6 /1. l'araphyses filiform, hardly thickened above, with a series of orange-colored, globose nuclei. Sporidia biseriate, oblong, hyaline, obtuse, uniseptate, but not constricted, 8 to 10 x 2.5 to 3 ц. The outside of the ascomata is slightly hairy so that the species might be referred to Solenpeziza if that is really worthy of generic distinction.

DERMATELLA Karst. D. viticola E. & E., Proc. Phil. Acad., 352 (1894). Tyi'E habitat: On dead shoots of Vitts (cult.) Nov. 1893 (Nuttall, discov. 1337. 295). Sessile, convex-discoid and pale when moist, concave and flesh-color when dry, and then scarcely projecting above the surface of the bark. .50 to .75 mm. diameter. Asci clavatecylindrical, about 70 x 12 ц, with filiform paraphyses, 8spored, sub-sessile. Sporidia sub-biseriate, oblong elliptical, hyaline, 1 to 3-septate (3 to 4-nucleate at first), 15 to 18 x 6 to 6.5 ц. BELONIDIUM Mont. B. aurelia (Pers.) DeNot. Peziza aurclia, Pers. On a dead leaf in rotton log, Monon galia Co., at Little Falls (Millspaugh). ERINELLA Sacc. E. miNiopsis (Ell.) Sacc. On wet rotten wood, May, 1893 (Nuttall, 934). E. —sp. On Acer spicatum (Sheldon, 2560). Л S C O BOLACEAE. ASCOBOLUS, Pers. A. furfuraceus Pers. On old dung of cow, June 8, 1893 (Nuttall, 974). A. CARBONARius Karst. On bare spots where logs were burned by forest fire the previous winter, associated with Gcopyxis carbonaria. It appears that only the prolonged burning of large logs makes proper habitat for this species, as it does not grow where the fire was light. May 20, 1893 (Nuttall, 926). ASCOPHANUS Bond. A. GRANULIFORMIS (Cr.) Boild. ? On dung of cow, Dec., 1893 (Nuttall, 1340, 298).