42 The North American Cup-Fungi 



(34-40); paraphyses hyaline, filiform, strongly curved above, 

 often branched, tips only slightly thickened, 2 n thick. 



On rotten wood or humus among leaves, often under conifer- 

 ous trees. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: Newfoundland to Colorado, Idaho, and Al- 

 berta; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Pers. Ic. Descr. Fung. pi. 5, /. 5-7; Bres. 

 Fungi Trident, pi. 145; Rab. Krypt.-Fl. 1'': 1163,/. 1-4; Cooke, 

 Mycographia pi. 44 J. 172; Phill. Brit. Discom. pi. 2,f. 5; Ann. 

 Myc. 6: pi. 11 J. 103; pi. 21, f. 214, 215. 



2. Cudonia lutea (Peck) Sacc. Atti Inst. Venet. VI. 3 : 725. 1885. 



Vihrissea lutea Peck, Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. 1: 70. 1873. 

 Leotia lutea Cooke, Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat. Sci. 2: 287. 1875. 



Ascophores solitary or gregarious, rarely clustered, 1-6 cm. 

 high, but usually about 3 cm., fleshy-leathery; ascigerous portion 

 pileate, convex, the margin acute, reflexed, hymenium when 

 young covered by a volva-like membrane which later cracks 

 irregularly and falls away leaving remnants attached to the 

 margin, usually slightly depressed above, sometimes furrowed, 

 beautiful flesh-color to orange-buff, the under surface often with 

 radiating striae which continue down the stem, 5-15 mm. in 

 diameter; stem terete, or slightly compressed, sometimes in- 

 flated below, even or longitudinally striate, mealy, pale-yellow, 

 1-5 cm. high, 2-5 mm. thick, the whole ascophore when dry 

 becoming about the color of chamois skin or of Otidea leporina; 

 asci clavate, apex narrowed, not blue with iodine, variable in 

 size, reaching a length of 100 170 m and a diameter of 10-12 m, 

 8-spored; spores in a fascicle in the upper part of the ascus, 

 hyaline, smooth, with a hyaline, gelatinous sheath, clavate- 

 filiform, lower end acute, not narrowed above the middle, 2 X 

 45-78 M (55-65); paraphyses filiform, branched, not thickened 

 but strongly circinate at the tips. 



On decaying leaves in thickets, rarely on rotten wood, 

 chestnut burrs etc. 



Type locality: North Elba, New York. 



Distribution: Ontario to Tennessee. 



Illustrations: Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 25: pi. 1, f. 

 19-23; Ann. Bot. 11: pi. 12, f. 5-7; Ann. Myc. 6: pi 11, f. 105; 

 pi. 21-22, f. 216-219. 



Exsiccati; Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 3533. 



