174 The North American Cup-Fungi 



ington County, New York, by Stewart H. Burnham (Herb. The 

 New York Botanical Garden). 



Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 



24. Patella paludosa (Bond.) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Ciliaria paludosa Boud. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 10: 65. 1894. 



Lachnea paludosa Sacc. Syll. Fung. 11: 400. 1895. 



Lachnea gregaria pseudogrcgaria Rick in Oester. Bot. Zeitschr. 48: 62. 1898. 



Lachnea pseudogregaria Rehm, Ascom. 1268; Hedwigia 38: (243). 1899. 



Trichophaea pseudogregaria Boud. Hist. Class. Discom. Eu. 60. 1907. 



Trichophaea paludosa Boud. Hist. Class. Discom. Eu. 60. 1907. 



Apothecia closely gregarious, at first subglobose, finally 

 becoming scutellate to discoid, reaching a diameter of 1-2 mm., 

 externally clothed with dark-colored hairs which project about 

 the margin of the apothecium giving rise to a fringe-like border; 

 hymenium concave or nearly plane, whitish or bluish-white; 

 hairs rigid, sharp-pointed, sparingly septate, but the septa often 

 indistinct, so that the hairs often appear to be non-septate, 

 reddish-brown, reaching a length of 500 (x and a diameter of 

 20 /i at the broadest point; asci cylindric or subcylindric above, 

 gradually tapering below, reaching a length of 300 /x and a 

 diameter of 15-17 /x; spores 1-seriate, ellipsoid, containing two 

 oil-drops which become more or less obscured at maturity, 

 becoming sculptured, reaching a length of 22-25 yu and a diameter 

 of 15-17 m; spore-sculpturing taking the form of tubercles 2-3 ix 

 in diameter, giving to the spore a scalloped appearance; pa- 

 raphyses slender, slightly enlarged above, hyaline. 



On soil in swampy places. 



Type locality: Montmorency, France. 



Distribution: New York to Iowa; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 10: pi. 2, f. 4; Bull. 

 Lab. Nat. Hist. State Univ. Iowa 6: pi. 11, f. 1. 



25. Patella tuberculata Seaver, sp. nov. 



Apothecia gregarious but not usually crowded, at first globose 

 and closed, the light-colored exterior concealed by the dense 

 covering of dark-brown hairs, expanding and becoming scutellate 

 to discoid, reaching a diameter of 1-2 mm.; hymenium white 

 or whitish, plane or very slightly concave; hairs reddish-brown, 

 sparingly septate, straight or nearly so, thick-walled, tapering 

 into a bristle-like apex, varying in length according to age, but 

 reaching an extreme of 500 fx and a diameter of 20 /x; asci cylindric 



