460 Duranp: Strupies IN NortTH AMERICAN DISCOMYCETES 
Fine specimens of this beautiful species were collected at Ithaca 
during the week of May, 1901 (Herb. Cornell, no. 5807). The 
locality was low warm beech woods, where the plants grew on 
the bare soil among leaves, or in clumps of moss, or rarely on frag- 
ments of rotten wood. 
Saccardo established the genus O¢idella for this species on 
account of its irregular form and spherical spores. In other words 
it was a spherical-spored Ofidea. An examination of fresh material 
shows that the irregularity of mature plants is certainly not suffi- 
ciently constant or peculiar to serve as a basis for generic 
distinction. 
Good illustrations are given by Cooke, Mycogr. A/. 53. fi 209; 
by Gillet, Disc. franc. p/. 38; and by Weberbauer, Pilze Nord- 
Deutschl. p/. 3. f. 7. 
Hitherto reported from this country only from Deerfield, 
Mass., and Yosemite Valley, Cal., Harness & Moore. 
CIBORIA LUTEOVIRESCENS (Rob.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 206. 1889 
Peziza luteovirescens Rob. Ann. Sci. Nat. III. 8: 188. 1847: 
Peziza pallidovirescens Phil. Grevillea, 6: 24. 1877. : 
Hymenoscypha luteovirescens (Rob.) Phil. Man. Brit. es 
12%. 1887. 
Exsicc.: Phill. Elv. Brit., no. 122. ‘ 
Plants solitary, stipitate ; ascomata plane with a slight mater 
waxy-membranous, about 2 mm. broad, narrowed below to @ ee 
slender, flexuous stem, 0.5—2 cm. long, tapering downward ; whole 
plant greenish-sulfur-yellow when fresh. Cortex parenchyma 
cells rounded or polygonal, 12-15” in diameter. Me 
portion composed of slender hyphae loosely interwoven. * yee 
of the cup greenish-yellow when crushed. Asci clavate-cylin 
cal, apex rounded, becoming deep blue with iodine, 135-145 * a 
104; spores 8, obliquely uniseriate, hyaline, continuous, ee 
elliptical, occasionally slightly unsymmetrical, 12-16 X ; 2 - 
paraphyses filiform, slightly thickened above, somewhat 10 
than the asci. 
On partly buried petioles lying on the ground amon 
under beech trees, Churchville, N. Y., October 26, 1901- cept 
My plants agree with Phillips’s specimens in every wey. moe 
that the cups are smaller. This was also true of the Bone 
specimens described by Rehm. The length of the stem 
g leaves 
