JAN. 1896. FLORA OF W. VIRGINIA MILLSPAUGH & NUTTALL. 151 



T. subiculata (Schw.) Sacc. 



On wet sticks, June 15 and Oct. 25, 1893. Spores large, 10 x 

 3 fj. (Nut tall, 992). 



LACHNELLA Fr. 



Li. Virginica E. & E., Proc. Phila. Acad. 349 (1894). 



TYPE HABITAT: On decaying wood of Magnolia Fraseri, Feb.. 

 1894 {Nuttall, discov. 1410, 380). 



Gregarious, sessile, .75 to 1.2 mm. diameter. Disk pallid, con- 

 cave, nearly closed when dry, margin fringed with brown septate 

 hairs, 100 to 125 x 3 //, outside clothed with shorter reddish- 

 brown hairs. Asci about 50 x 5 /j., clavate-cylindrical, short 

 stipitate, paraphysate, 8-spored. Sporidia sub-biseriate, oblong, 

 6 to 8 x 1.5 to 2.5 /*. 



TRICHOPEZIZA Fuckel. 



T. - - sp. 



Torn end of firm dead tree, Short Creek, alt. 1,800 ft. Dec. 16, 

 1893 (Nut tall, 1326). 



T. albo-lutea (Pers.) Sacc. ? 



On rotten log, Short Creek, June 18, 1893, stipitate (Nuttall, 

 1013). 



T. capitata (Peck) Sacc. 



On leaves Quercus palustris on ground in woods, alt. 2,000 ft., 

 June 18, 1893. At Rupert's, July 26, 1894 (Nuttall, ion). 



DASYSCYPHA Fr. 



D. virginea (Batsch) Fckl. 



On dead sticks on wet cliff, and on wet dead wood of Juglans 

 cinerea, June 12, 1893 {Nuttall, 841). 



D. Ellisiana (Rehm.) Sacc. 



On Pinus rigida, top of Cavendish cliff, April 8, 1894 (Nutt- 

 all, 1447)- 



HELOTIELLA Sacc. 



H. Nuttallii E. & E., Proc. Phila. Acad., 351 (1894). 



TYPE HABITAT: On wet shady side of rotten log, March 15, 1894 

 (Nuttall, discov. 1425, 397). 



Ascomata gregarious, sessile, flat-hemispherical, .5 to i mm. 

 diameter, cup-shaped when fresh, contracted and sub-spherical 

 when dry with only a small round apical opening, orange color 

 throughout, disk watery-orange, outside and fringed margin 

 paler. Substance fibrous, the fibers prolonged 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 //. 

 Paraphyses filiform, hardly thickened above, with a series of 

 orange-colored, globose nuclei. Sporidia biseriate, oblong, hya- 



