LEPTOGLOSSUM ALAUAMENSE n. sp.
Black throughout, gregarious, 2-3 cm. high. Ascoma about cm. long, flattened, in the dry condition about 2 mm. wide and 0.5 mm. thick, blunt or rounded, horny, yellowish within ; stem roughened, somewhat enlarged at base ; spores hyaline, straight or slightly more or less curved, biseriate in the asci, becoming 4 septate, 18-20 x paraphyses abundant, thickened and darker colored at the tip.
On the ground, Auburn, Alabama. July.