104 The North American Cup-Fungi 



On bare soil or among mosses. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: New York to Colorado; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Bond. Ic. Myc. pi. 3<S6; Cooke, Mycographia 

 pi. 33, f. 127; Gardner's Chron. 1872: 9, /. 1; Grevillea 1: pi. 8, 

 f. 1, 2; Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. (suites); Pat. Tab. Fung. 

 /. 276. 



This species has been frequently collected about New York 

 on bare soil in open woods. As this goes to press, specimens of 

 the species have been received from Winnipeg, Canada, with the 

 statement that it is collected there every autumn in abundance 

 on sawdust in an old ice-house after the ice has been removed. 

 The material was collected by A. H. R. Duller and G. R. Bisby. 



2. Melastiza asperrima (Ellis & Ev.) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Lachnea barhata Massee, Jour. Bot. 30: 163. 1892. Not L. harhata (Kunze) 



Gill. 1879. 

 Lachnea asperrima Ellis & Ev. (in herb.). 



Apothecia scattered or gregarious, scutellate, the margins 

 slightly elevated, regular in form or with the margins wavy, 

 externally sparingly clothed with hairs, reaching a diameter of 

 5-8 mm.; hymenium slightly concave, bright-red; hairs very long 

 and projecting far out about the margin of the apothecium, dark 

 reddish-brown, septate, thick-walled, gradually tapering above 

 into a bristle-like apex, reaching a length of 2 mm. and a diameter 

 of 35 M near the base; asci cylindric or subcylindric, reaching a 

 length of 250^1 and a diameter of 17-20 m; spores 1-seriate, 

 ellipsoid, containing one large oil-drop, 15-17 X 30-35 /x, be- 

 coming sculptured; spore-sculpturing assuming the form of very 

 regular, usually hexagonal reticulations, the reticulations con- 

 sisting of ridges which extend about 2 /x beyond the periphery 

 of the. spore, strongly roughening its surface, the meshes of the 

 reticulations about 3 or 4 ^i in diameter; paraphyses slender 

 below, rather strongly thickened above. 



On rotten wood. 



Type locality: Nicaragua. 



Distribution: Nicaragua to Mexico and the West Indies. 



Illustration: Jour. Bot. 30: pi. 321, J. 5-8. 



3. Melastiza pennsylvanica Seaver, sp. nov. 



Apothecia scattered or sessile, scutellate, the margin slightly 

 elevated and sparingly clothed with long hairs, reaching a 



