136 The North American Cup-Fungi 



orange. The paraphyses are strongly enlarged and several times 

 branched. 



There seems to be some confusion regarding this species in 

 Europe and of course the question arises as to whether we have 

 the same thing here. Perhaps future study will add to our 

 knowledge of this form. Our specimens are preserved in the 

 herbarium of The New York Botanical Garden. 



25. Humarina aggregata (Berk. & Br.) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Peziza aggregata Berk. & Br. Ann. Mag. Nat. Hist. III. 18: 123. 1866. 

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



Apothecia gregarious or more often crowded together into 

 confluent masses, subcylindric or turbinate, externally whitish or 

 pale-orange, reaching a diameter of 2-3 mm., seated on a 

 conspicuous mycelial growth; hymenium slightly concave or 

 nearly plane, surrounded by a delicate fringe-like border, bright- 

 orange; asci cylindric to clavate, tapering rather abruptly below, 

 reaching a length of 200-225 /x and a diameter of 10-12 m, 8- 

 spored; spores 1-seriate, often with the ends strongly overlapping 

 or irregularly crowded and partially 2-seriate, fusoid, containing 

 two oil-drops, 8-9 X 22-25 /x, hyaline; paraphyses rather strongly 

 enlarged above. 



On the ground, on burned places and on humus in coniferous 



woods. 



Type locality: Great Britain. 



Distribution: New Hampshire and Indiana; also in Europe. 



Illustrations : Grevillea 3 : pi. 50 J. 236; Cooke, Mycographia 

 pi. 8,f. 31; E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 1^: 184,/. 149, F-H. 



26. Humarina fusispora (Berk.) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Peziza fusispora Berk. London Jour. Bot. 5: 5. 1846. 



Humaria fusispora Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 133. 1889. 



Leucoioma fusispora Rehm, Ascom. 1053; Hedwigia 31: 301. 1892. 



Apothecia gregarious or crowded, at first subglobose, be- 

 coming scutellate to discoid, reaching a diameter of 2-3 mm., 

 externally pale-orange, surrounded at the base by a rather con- 

 spicuous mycelial growth; hymenium concave or nearly plane, 

 bright-orange; asci subcylindric to clavate, 8-spored, reaching a 

 length of about 250 m and a diameter of 12 m; spores 1-seriate, 

 with the ends overlapping or becoming partially 2-seriate, fusoid 

 or almost fusiform, containing one or more commonly two oil- 

 drops, 8-10 X 30-33 M, hyaline; paraphyses fiUform, slightly 

 enlarged above. 



