92 The North American Cup-Fungi 



Type locality: Newfield, New Jersey. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



Doubtful and Excluded Species 



Ascoholus atrofuscus Phill. & Plow.; Harkness & Moore, Pacific Coast 

 Fungi 38. 1880. This species was listed in the above work as a new species 

 occurring on horse dung. The name is untenable since it was previously 

 used by the same authors for a species occurring on burnt ground which has 

 been made a synonym of Ascobolus carbonarius Karst. The application of 

 the same name to a second species is doubtless due to an oversight. Nothing 

 is known of the plant to which this name was applied in the Harkness and 

 Moore report. 



Ascoholus viridis Curr. Trans. Linn. Soc. 24: 154. 1863. This species 

 was reported by the writer from Iowa. Later studies showed that the plant 

 to which this name was applied is quite different from the European species 

 (see Plate 7, fig. 1) and the American species has therefore been redescribed 

 under the name of Ascoholus geophilus. So far as known the European species 

 has not been collected in America. 



Ascoholus purpurascens Pers.; Calkins, Jour. Myc. 2: 106. 1886. This 

 species is listed by Calkins in his report of Florida fungi. We have no 

 knowledge of the nature of the plants reported under this name. 



Ascobolus brunneus Cooke, Fungi Brit. Exsicc. 3: 87; Hedwigia 6: 154. 

 1867. American specimens listed under this name have been referred to 

 other species. 



Ascoholus cubensis Berk. & Curt. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 370. 1868. No 

 specimen of this species has been seen and its identity is uncertain. From 

 the description it appears to be close to Ascoholus viridulus Phill. & Plow. 



Ascobolus vinosus Berk, in Hooker's Engl. Fl. 5-: 209. 1836. American 

 specimens referred to this species scarcely difTer from Ascobolus stercorarius 

 (Bull.) Schrot. 



Ascobolus major Berk. & Curt. Grevillea 4: 6. 1875. No specimen of 

 this species has been seen and the description is so brief and incomplete as 

 to give no clue to its identity. 



Ascobolus conglomeratus Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. H. 4: 178. 1832. 

 This is one of the Hysteriaceae and has usually been treated as a synonym of 

 Angelina rufescens (Schw.) Duby. 



Ascobolus Trifolii Biv. Stirp. Rar. Sic. 4: 27. 1816. This is not a 

 true Ascoholus. It was made the type of the genus Pseiidopeziza by Fuckel. 



Ascoholus pusillus Bond. Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 24: 310. 1877. The species 

 has been reported from North America by Dodge. 



10. SACCOBOLUS Boud. Ann. Sci. Nat. V. 10: 228. 1869. 



Apothecia minute, sessile, superficial or subsuperficial, ex- 

 ternally smooth or pilose; hymenium concave, plane or convex, 

 smooth or becoming roughened by the protruding asci ; substance 

 soft, fleshy or waxy, variable in color; asci cylindric to clavate, 

 4-8-spored; spores hyaline, then purple or bluish, later brown, 



