Permission to collect verbally granted for this date only in conjunction with the Boston Mycological Club winter excursion. All observations made on an Olympus BX40 transmitted light microscope from living material in water unless otherwise noted. Sections made on a freezing microtome to 20 μm thickness. Ascomata: pseudoperithecia appearing erumpent when young – superficial in maturity, gregarious to scattered, never confluent, pulvinate or globular, smooth, black, ~ 0.5 mm diam at most, short-papillate, base firmly attached to substrate, when dry the top collapsing slightly, no subiculum or discoloration of surrounding substratum observed. Pseudoperithecia unilocular, wall one layer 43.2 – 51.4 μm thick at the sides in median cross section – ~ 55.6 μm at the base, textura angularis – cells isodiametric to elongated 7 – 10.4 um diam with dark brown extracellular pigments, darkest on the outer surface then pale brown-gray within; ostiole without periphyses, tissues not much differentiated from the wall tissue, pseudoparaphyses abundant, filiform, septate, 1.9 μm diam; asci developing along the basal region of the locule, bitunicate, cylindrical, with a bulbous foot, ectoascus separating cleanly leaving a thimble-like topmost part and flaring out slightly at the points of splitting, 8-spored, 111- 132 x 8 – 10 μm; ascospores uniseriate in the ascus, hyaline with one median septum when immature then the wall darkening to brown at maturity and becoming 3-septate, strongly constricted at the septa, the second cell from the top usually being the widest, elliptical, ends obtuse or bluntly acute, a single barely discernable guttule may be observed in each of the cells otherwise appearing to have no contents, 12 ascospores in water at 1000x in μm: Ascospores length width 16.5 7.0 17.1 7.0 17.1 6.3 18.4 6.3 17.8 6.3 18.7 5.9 18.8 6.9 15.9 6.2 17.8 6.7 17.5 6.6 16.9 6.2 16.2 7.1 Culture 3/6 - Pseudoperithecia placed on a piece of damp filter paper and suspended over water agar media with chloramphenicol and streptomycin to allow ascospores to drop onto agar surface. Ascospores germinated from both poles and laterally from the middle cells within 8 hours and grow quickly. 3/7 – germinating ascospores transferred to PDA. For single spore transfers, the water agar plates were inverted on the stage of compound microscope and isolated ascospores were located through the bottom of the dish which was then marked. From this marked area, under sterile conditions with a scalpel, a 2 mm square block of agar bearing the single spore was excised and transferred to the PDA, then reexamined under magnification to be sure only one spore was captured. For polysporous cultures the same method was employed. This fungus seems to be a fast grower. 4/3 – single spore mycelia 10 & 6 mm diam, humped, tomentose (aerial hyphae individual), pale pink-brown, margin entire, in reverse pale pink-brown to dark pink-brown. In polysporous colony some hyphal strands and fascicles observed with dark pigmented inclusions. Samples taken from one single spore mycelia and placed in Eppendorf tubes one frozen and one in CTAB, remaining plates placed under CFL 10w bulb in incubator. Transfer from single spore colony to one plate each PDA and oat media and placed in diffuse daylight at room temp.