134 The North American Cup-Fungi 



21. Humarina phyllogena Seaver, comb. nov. 

 Humaria phyllogena Seaver, Mycologia 17: 46. 1925. 



Apothecia sessile or subsessile, discoid or with the margin 

 slightly elevated, reaching a diameter of 3-5 mm., flesh-red, 

 brighter when dry; asci clavate, operculate, reaching a length 

 of 200 M and a diameter of 12 /x; spores broad-ellipsoid, 12 X 18- 

 20 ii, usually containing two oil-drops, smooth. 



On dead leaves. 



Type locality: El Yunque, Porto Rico. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



22. Humarina tetraspora (Fuckel) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Ascobolus tetrasporus Fuckel, Hedwigia 5: 4. 1866. 

 Leucoloma tetraspora Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 317. 1869. 

 Peziza tetraspora Cooke, Grevillea 3: 73. 1874. 

 Aleuria tetraspora Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 207. 1886. 

 Humaria tetraspora Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 121. 1889. 

 Humaria silvosa Clements, Bot. Surv. Nebr. 5: 7. 1901. 



Apothecia gregarious or scattered, sessile, at first closed and 

 subglobose, expanding and becoming subdiscoid, reaching a 

 diameter of 2-3 mm.; hymenium at first concave, becoming 

 nearly plane or slightly convex, surrounded by a delicate fringe- 

 like border, bright-orange; asci clavate, reaching a length of 

 150-200 M and a diameter of 15-22 /x, 4-spored; spores 1-seriate, 

 with the ends strongly overlapping, narrow, ellipsoid to subfusoid, 

 containing two or three oil-drops, 10-12 X 22-26 /x, or rarely 

 reaching a length of 30 n, hyaline; paraphyses strongly enlarged 

 at their apices, where they reach a diameter of 7-8 /x, filled with 

 orange granules. 



On the ground usually among mosses. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: New York to Iowa and Minnesota; also in 

 Europe. 



Illustrations: Hedwigia 5: pi. 1, f. 5; Bull. Lab. Nat. 

 Hist. State Univ. Iowa 6: pi. 13, f. 1; Bond. Ic. Myc. pi. 393; 

 Cooke, Mycographia pi. 12, f. 45; Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. pi. 

 52, f. 1; Pat. Tab. Fung./. 482. 



23. Humarina permuda (Cooke) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Peziza fusispora var. permuda Cooke, Mycographia 209. 1878. 

 Peziza permuda Cooke, Mycographia 209. 1878 (as synonym). 

 Humaria permuda Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 134. 1889. 



