3S The North American Cup-Fungi 



2. Leotia stipitata (Bosc.) Schrot. E. & P. Nat. Pfl. V: 166. 



1897. 



Tremella stipitata Bosc. Berl. Mag. 5: 89. 1811. 

 Leotia viscosa Fries, Syst. Myc. 2: 30. 1822. 



Ascophores solitary, or clustered, stipitate, viscid-gelatinous, 

 3-6 cm. or more high; ascigerous portion 1-2 cm. or more broad, 

 margin incurved toward the stem, even or irregularly nodulose, 

 hymenium clear deep aeruginous-green, whitish below; stem 

 terete or tapering slightly upward, usually pure-white, or less 

 often with an ochraceous or orange tint, 2-4 cm. high, .5-1 cm. 

 thick, often beset, especially above, with minute, green squa- 

 mules; asci narrowly clavate-cylindric, not or only slightly 

 narrowed, not blue with iodine, reaching a length of 118-150 n 

 and a diameter of 10 ^u, 8-spored; spores 2-seriate above, 1- 

 seriate below, hyaline, smooth, at first simple, finally 5- or more- 

 septate, ends obtuse, or subacute, straight or curved, 5-6 X 

 16-28 y. (20-24); paraphyses filiform, branched, the apices pyri- 

 form, intense green when fresh. 



In rich humus or soil, especially among leaves in woods or on 

 the slopes of ravines. 



Type locality: South Carolina. 



Distribution: Maine to Florida and California; also in 

 Europe. 



Illustrations: Berl. Mag. 15: pi. 6, f. 14; Cooke, Myco- 

 graphia pi 44, f. 173; Ann. Bot. 11: pL 13, f. 65; Ann. Myc. 6: 

 pi. 11, f. 109; pi. 20, f. 210. 



Exsiccati: Ellis, N. Am. Fungi 663; Ellis & Ev. N. Am. 

 Fungi 2032; Rav. Fungi Car. 4: 22; Fungi Am. 173. 



3. Leotia chlorocephala Schw. Schr. Nat. Ges. Leipzig 1: 114. 



1822. 



Ascophores solitary to densely clustered, subgelatinous, en- 

 tirely green, 1-5 cm. high; ascigerous portion hemispherical, 

 convex, margin incurved, obtuse, hymenium smooth or furrowed, 

 the margin often lobed or nodulose, pea-green to aeruginous, 2-10 

 mm. wide; stem terete, firm, the middle layer green, surface 

 densely squamose, or furfuraceous with green granules, 1-4.5 

 cm. high, 2-4 mm. thick, shrinking much in drying, the color 

 changing but little; asci narrowly clavate, apex rounded not 

 blue with iodine, reaching a length of 125-150 /i and a diameter 

 of 10-12 ju, 8-spored, short-stipitate; spores subbiseriate above. 



