108 C. H. Kauffman 



of Alnus. Apothecia chrome-yellow when fresh, then dull red. 

 Spores 12-18 x 3.5-4.5 m- 



Lachnellula chrysophthalma (Pers.) Phillips. On timbers 

 of coniferous wood in interior of mines. See note by Seaver {I.e.). 



Lachnella flammea (A. & S.) Fr. Common, Tolland. On 

 decorticated sticks of Salix sp., Alnus tenuifolia, and Populus 

 tremuloides. 



Lachnum bicolor (Bull.) Karst. Infrequent, Tolland. On 

 decayed log of Salix, Disk of apothecium yellow when fresh, 

 fading. 



Ombrophila janthina (Karst.) Rehm. Infrequent, Tolland. 

 On decaying cones and cone debris of Picea Engelmanni. 



Phialea lutescens (Hedw.) Gill. Infrequent, Tolland. 

 On rotten hard wood of conifers. 



Phialea subtilis (Fr.) Rehm. Frequent locally. 



On needles of Picea Engelmanni in brush-piles, partly covered 

 by debris from high water. The slender stipes are longer than 

 are typical in the sense of Rehm, being 0.5-2.5 mm. long, and 

 the spores are very narrow, scarcely over .5 /x wide. The plant 

 is entirely pure white when fresh. 



Tapesia evilescens Karst. 



Apothecia .5-1 mm. broad, cupulate when fresh and then 

 disk is whitish, cinerescent, externally with whitish margin, else- 

 where brownish-fuscous, glabrous except where immersed at base 

 in the fuscous, adnate, rather thin, interwoven subiculum; con- 

 text thin, whitish above, brownish-filamentose downward, with a 

 thin excipulum of subpolygonal, dark brown and thick-walled cells; 

 asci 50-65 x 3-4 /x, subcylindric-subfusiform, subacute at apex; 

 paraphyses filiform, equal, 1-1.5 /x thick, hyaline. Spores cylin- 

 drical, straight, subequal, 8-9 (10) x .5-1 ju, biseriate in upper 

 part of ascus. Hyphae of subiculum dark brown, brittle, thick- 

 walled, septate, 3-3.5 }x diam. 



Closely gregarious on subiculum, on decorticated fallen 

 branches of Alnus tenuifolia. Tolland. Elevation 9000 ft. 



Although T. evilescens is reported on dead stems of Gra- 

 minaceae, this species is closely allied to it, by its very 

 narrow spores, and by this character is removed from the 



