36 The North American Cup-Fungi 



top; stem varying from nearly terete or compressed to broadly 

 expanded and flattened above, rather rounded in outline at its 

 junction with the ascigerous part, 2-4 cm. high, up to 1.5 cm. 

 broad above, 3-5 mm. thick at the base, solid, bay-brown and 

 minutely velvety, attached by an orange mycelium; the asco- 

 phore shrinks but little in drying, the color becomes brownish 

 and the stem more or less longitudinally rugose or striate; asci 

 clavate, apex narrowed, not blue with iodine, reaching a length 

 of 80-105 IX and a diameter of 10 /i, 8-spored; spores in a parallel 

 fascicle in the ascus, hyaline, smooth, clavate-filiform, straight, 

 or curved, becoming multiseptate, 2 X 33-43 /x (35-40); paraph- 

 yses filiform, hyaline, branched, strongly curved, or coiled at 

 the tips. 



On rotten logs, humus among leaves, or especially on the 

 ground under pines. 



Type locality: New Hampshire. 



Distribution: New Hampshire to North Carolina and 

 Minnesota, and Idaho? 



Illustrations: Ann. Bot. 11: pi. 13, f. 85-88; Ann. Myc. 6: 

 pi. 11, f. 101-102; pi. 22, f. 221-222. 



Doubtful Species 



Spathularia linguatus A. E. Johnson, Bull. Minn. Acad. Nat. Sci. 1: 370. 

 1880. "Head tongue-shaped, flat, thin, nearly even, white, or white tinged 

 with yellow or buff'; stem white or yellowish white, thick, solid; asci very long, 

 clavate; sporidia filiform, nearly as long as the asci, straight or curved, multi- 

 nucleate. Gregarious, seldom solitary, one to two inches high; head as long 

 or longer than the stem, one-fourth to three-fourths of an inch broad. On 

 moss in tamarck swamps. October. Scarce." The above is all that is 

 known about this species. 



8. LEOTIA Pers. Neues Mag. Bot. 1: 97. 1794. 



Hygromitra Nees, Syst. Pilz. Schw. 157. 1816. 

 Cudoniella Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 41. 1889. 



Ascophores more or less gelatinous, stipitate, erect; ascigerous 

 portion pileate, horizontal, supported in the center, bearing the 

 hymenium spread over its upper convex surface, sterile beneath; 

 asci clavate; spores hyaline, oblong-fusiform, at first simple, 

 finally 3-5-septate; paraphyses present. 



Type species, Elvela luhrica Scop. 



