324 The North American Cup-Fungi 



January 16, 193,r 

 Mr. G. W. Goldsmith 

 University of Texas 

 Austin, Texas. 

 Dear Mr. Goldsmith: 



Your letter received and I am interested in the further data regarding; 

 Urnula Geasier, and am especially glad to have the photographs. I would 

 like to get a larger photograph 4x5 inches of the habitat sketches and also 

 the spore discharge. If we had the negatives we ccuiid have them made here, 

 but probably you could get them made there to better advantage. The 

 habitat sketch is exceptionally good, and I think you have done remarkably 

 well with the spore discharge also. 



In reading over a report on this species in the Botanical Gazette by 

 Heald and Wolf, I notice that they have described the paraphyses as being 

 very slender, and of uniform thickness throughout their entire length. They 

 also figure them that way. Since they must have worked with fresh material 

 I do not understand how they could have made such a record. Is it possible 

 that there are two species with similar appearance? You are in excellent 

 position to check up on these points and I think we should have more detailed 

 information on this apparently endemic species in Te.xas. I will look forward 

 to your results this year with a great deal of interest. With best regards, I am 



Very sincerely yours, 



Signed — Fred J. Se.wer 



The peculiar moniliform or catenulate formation of the 

 paraphyses in this species is absokitely unique in the cup-fungi, 

 so far as the writer's observations have gone. The individual 

 cells of the paraphyses, except the tip, are swollen until they are 

 almost globose in form and look like a string of huge conidia. 

 The structure and behavior of bodies is doubtless responsible for 

 the literally turning inside out of apothecia of this species. 

 In a previous paper it has been referred to as an "expansion 

 apparatus." While the paraphyses in other species often swell 

 at their tips the writer has never encountered anything like the 

 condition observed here. 



202. Paxina Acetabulum. 



Range extended to California (E. E. Morse), Vermont (C. W. 

 Dodge), Kashmir, India (R. R. Stewart), and North Dakota 

 (J. F. Brenckle). 



Add to exsiccati: Brenckle, Fungi Dakotenses 502. 



203. Paxina platypodia. 



Add the synonym: Acetahula mnrina Zeller, Mycologia 19: 

 139. 1927. 



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