PSEUDOPITHYELLA 153 



Type locality: Adirondack Mountains. 

 Distribution: New York to Wisconsin. 

 Illustrations: Grevillea 1: pi. l,f. 3; Cooke, Mycographia 

 pi. 31, f. 119. 



23. PSEUDOPITHYELLA Seaver, Mycologia 19: 87. 1927. 



Apothecia stipitate or subsessile, rather tough, not shrinking 

 much in drying, in general appearance and in habitat resembHng 

 a Pithya; hymenium scarlet; asci 8-spored, marked near the 

 apex by a prominent thickened ring; spores ellipsoid, hyaline; 

 paraphyses filiform. 



Type species, Sarcoscypha minuscula Boud. «S: Torrend. 



1. Pseudopithyella minuscula (Boud. iS: Torrend) Seaver, comb, 

 nov. 



Sarcoscypha minuscula Boud. & Torrend, Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 27: 128. 1911. 



Apothecia minute, not exceeding 1-2 mm. in diameter, 

 usually stipitate, at first nearly globose, becoming discoid or 

 subdiscoid, externally whitish and more or less tomentose; 

 hymenium concave or nearly plane, scarlet, becoming paler in 

 dried plants; stem slender and very variable in length, when 

 springing from the under side of the substratum, short or almost 

 wanting, seldom exceeding 1 mm. in length, gradually expanding 

 above into the apothecium; asci cylindric or subcylindric above, 

 gradually tapering below into a long stem-like base, reaching a 

 length of 600 m and a diameter of 12-15 m, marked by two little 

 ear-like protuberances where the thickened ring passes around 

 near the apex, the point of dehiscence about 3 m inside of the ring; 

 operculum circular, 3-4 m in diameter; spores smooth, containing 

 two oil-drops, 10-11 X 15-17 m; paraphyses filiform, scarcely 

 enlarged above, branched, reaching a diameter of 2 ^ at their 

 apices. 



On decaying foliage of cedar. 



Type locality: Portugal. 



Distribution: Bermuda Islands; also in Europe. 



Illustration: Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 27: pi. 4, f. 3. 



The only specimens of this species known on this side of the 

 Atlantic were collected by the writer, and later by H. H. Whetzel, 

 in Bermuda. Our specimens agree splendidly with the illustra- 

 tion cited. 



