138 The North American Cup-Fungi 



asci clavate, 8-spored, 14-15 X 160 mm.; spores partially 2- 

 .seriate, fusoid, 6 X 30 /x. 



On decaying sticks. 



Type locality: El Yunque, Porto Rico. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



29. Humarina Gerardi (Cooke) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Peziza Gerardi Cooke, Hedwigia 14: 8L 1875. 



Peziza violacea Ger.; Cooke, Hedwigia 14: 81 (as synonym). 1875. Not 



Peziza violacea Pers. 1797. 

 Peziza ionella Quel. Bull. Soc. Bot. Fr. 24: 328. 1877. 

 Aleuria ionella Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 51. 1879. 

 Humaria ionella Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 149. 1889. 

 Humaria Gerardi Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 150. 1889. 

 Galactinia ionella Boud. Hist. Class. Discom. Eu. 47. 1907. 



Apothecia gregarious, at first closed and subglobose, ex- 

 panding and becoming scutellate or nearly discoid, sessile or 

 substipitate, reaching a diameter of 4-5 mm., externally pale- 

 violaceous and slightly roughened; hymenium slightly concave 

 or nearly plane, violaceous; asci clavate, 8-spored; spores 1- 

 seriate or partially 2-seriate above, occasionally becoming irregu- 

 larly crowded, fusoid, smooth, containing one to several oil- 

 drops, 9-10 X 30-35 M, hyaline; paraphyses rather stout, en- 

 larged above. 



On the ground. 



Type locality: New York. 



Distribution: New York and Minnesota; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Cooke, Mycographia pi. ll,f. 44; (?) Bull. 

 Soc. Bot. Fr. 24: pi. 6, f. 4; GreviWea 3: pi. 43, f. 206; Boud. Ic. 

 Myc. pi. 301. 



30. Humarina purpurea Seaver, sp. nov. 



Apothecia gregarious or closely crowded and often irregular 

 from mutual pressure, sessile, becoming scutellate, externally 

 rough and dark reddish-purple to blackish-brown, the margin 

 crenate, reaching a diameter of 2-3 mm. ; hymenium concave, 

 reddish-purple, lighter than the outside of the apothecium; 

 excipular cells elongated, rectangular or polyhedral, reaching a 

 diameter of 25-30 m, with brown walls, giving rise to fascicles 

 of dark-brown hair-like structures which project and give rise 

 to the crenate margin; asci cylindric or subcylindric, reaching a 

 length of 150-175 ix and a diameter of 11-12 n, 8-spored; spores 

 1-seriate, parallel with the ascus or slightly oblique, fusoid, at 



