34 The North American Cup-Fungi 



Ascophores solitary, or aggregated, 3-7 cm. or more high, 

 brownish-black; ascigerous portion narrowly ellipsoid to lanceo- 

 late, obtuse, not distinct from the stem, one-third to one-half 

 the total length of the plant, 1-2 cm. long, 3-5 mm. or more 

 wide, compressed; stem terete or compressed, about 2 mm. in 

 diameter, densely velvety with black, acicular spines; asci 

 clavate, apex narrowed, obtuse, pore blue with iodine, reaching 

 a length of 175-200 /n and a diameter of 18-20 ju, 8-spored; 

 spores multiseriate in the ascus, clavate-cylindric, not narrowed 

 above the middle, fuliginous, or pale-brown, 6 X 82-107 fx 

 (87-100); paraphyses cylindric, septate, curved at the tips which 

 are slightly thickened and brown; spines acicular, projecting 

 about one-fourth to one-third their length beyond the hymenium. 



On rotten wood or humus. 



Type locality: Australia. 



Distribution: New Hampshire to Minnesota and south 

 Alabama; also in Europe and Australia. 



Illustrations: Cooke, Mycographia pi. 1, f. 4; Ann. Myc. 

 6: pi. 10,}. 94-97; pi. 18, J. 190-193. 



7. SPATHULARIA Pers. Neues Mag. Bot. 1: 116. 1794. 



Ascophores fleshy, erect, stipitate; ascigerous portion spath- 

 ulate, much compressed, fan-shaped, decurrent on opposite sides 

 of the stem from which it is sharply delimited; bright-colored; 

 asci clavate, 8-spored; spores fasciculate in the ascus, filiform- 

 clavate, multiseptate; paraphyses present. 



Spathularia differs from other genera of the famih' in having 

 bright-colored, spathulate or fan-shaped ascophores. The con- 

 sistency and spore characters are those of Cudonia. 



Type species, Spathularia fiavida Pers. 



Stem pallid or yellowish-pallid; mycelium pale-yellow. 1. 5. clavata. 



Stem bay-brown, minutely velvety; mycelium orange. 2. S. velutipes 



1. Spathularia clavata (Schaeff.) Sacc. Michelia 2: 77. 1882. 

 (Plate 81, Fig. 2.) 



Elvela clavata Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. 4: Ind. 59. 1774. 



Spathularia flavida Pers. Neues Mag. Bot. 1: 116. 1794. 



Spathularia flava Pers. in Holmsk. Coryph. 166. 1797. 



Spathularia flavida var. rugosa Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 39: 58. 1 887. 



Spathularia rugosa Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 50: 118. 1897. 



Mitruliopsis flavida Peck, Bull. Torrey Club 30: 100. 1903. 



