10 The North American Cup-Fungi 



2. Mitrula vitellina (Bres.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 36. 1889. 



Geoglossum vitellinum Bres. Rev. Myc. 4: 212. 1882. 

 Microglossum vitellinum Boud. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 1: 110. 1885. 



Ascophores clavate, 2-3 cm. high, "when fresh creamy- 

 yellow," when dry yellowish cream-colored or brownish in one 

 specimen, the ascigerous portion occupying about one-half the 

 total length, about 3 mm. wide, compressed, obtuse, not sharply 

 differentiated from the stem; stem terete, somewhat fie.xuous, 

 equal, about 1 mm. in diameter, whitish, fibrillose; asci slender, 

 cylindric, branched below, apex rounded, not blue with iodine, 

 reaching a length of 75-80 m and a diameter of 5-6 ju, 8-spored; 

 spores 1-seriate, hyaline, continuous, smooth, broadly ellipsoid, 

 3-4 X 4-6 n; paraphyses absent. 



On rotten wood. 



Type locality : Tyrol. 



Distribution: Tennessee; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Bres. Fungi Trid. pL 45, f. 1; Rab. Krypt.-Fl. 

 V: 1143/. 1-3; Ann. Bot. U: pi. 12, f. 3~4a; Ann. Myc. 6: pi. 5, 

 /. 5-6. 



3. Mitrula phalloides (Bull.) Chev. Fl. Paris 1: 114. 1826. 



(Plate 76.) 



?Helvella laricina Vill. Hist. PI. Dauph. 4: 1045. 1789. 

 Clavaria phalloides Bull. Hist. Champ. Fr. 214. 1791. 

 Mitrula paludosa Fries, Syst. Myc. 1: 491. 1821. 

 Leotia uliginosa Grev. Scot. Crypt. Fl. 6: pi. 312. 1828. 

 Leotia elegans Berk. London Jour. Bot. 5: 6. 1846. 

 Mitrula elegans Fries, Nov. Symb. Myc. 103. 1851. 

 Mitrula laricina Massee, .Ann. Bot. 11: 271. 1897. 



Ascophores solitary, or usually more or less densely gregari- 

 ous, sometimes as many as fifteen to twenty closely aggregated 

 and cohering at their bases, 2-6 cm. or more high, ascigerous 

 portion clear vitelline-yellow, sharply differentiated from the 

 stem, at first solid, becoming vesiculose or inflated and hollow 

 when old, in outline ellipsoid, ellipsoid-obovoid, or pyriform, the 

 apex rounded, obtuse, even or somewhat longitudinally furrowed 

 especially below, often somewhat compressed, rarely more than 

 one-fifth the total height of the plant, .5 2 cm. high, 4-10 mm. 

 wide; stem terete, often flexuous, pure satiny white or sometimes 

 with a pinkish tint, 1.5-2 mm. thick, smooth, when moist trans- 

 lucent and viscid; the whole plant soft and subtremellose; asci 



