66 The North American Cup-Fungi 



On Jerusalem artichoke, onions, cucumber, cabbage and a 

 large number of cultivated vegetables. 

 Type locality: Western Washington. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 

 Illustrations: Western Wash. Exp. Sta. Bull. 107:/. 1-9. 



7. LAMBERTELLA Hohn. Sitz.-ber. Akad. Wien I. 127: 



375. 1918. 



Apothecia springing from a more or less definitely outlined, 

 dark-colored, stromatic base consisting of a single layer of cells 

 and loosely interwoven hyphae, stipitate, gregarious, or scattered, 

 fleshy, becoming coriaceous, or corneous on drying, some shade 

 of brown, or yellowish-brown when fresh; hymenium slightly 

 darker; stem relatively stout, variable in length, or occasionally 

 wanting, hirsute, or furfuraceous; asci c>lindric to clavate, 

 attenuated below, rounded or truncate at the tip, 8-spored; 

 spores usually 1 -seriate, or occasionalh' becoming partially 2- 

 seriate, simple, broadly ellipsoid, ovoid, or lunate, usually 

 unequal sided, or lunate, smooth, or rough, golden-brown, or 

 olivaceous when mature; paraphyses often branched, hyaline, 

 slightly enlarged above. Spermatia usually present. No con- 

 idial stage observed. 



Type species, LamberteUa Corui-maris Hohn. 



Spores small, not over 10-11 ju long. 



On stromatized hulls of Carya. 1. L. Ilicoriae. 



On mummied berries and leaves. 



On Jasminum and Citharexylum in Bermuda. 2. L. Jasmini. 



On Coccoloba? leaves in British Honduras. 3. L. tropicalis. 



Spores large, 12-18 m long. 



On mummied fruits of Prunus. 4. L. Pruni. 



On fallen or hanging leaves. 



On leaves of Viburnum. 5. L. Viburni. 



On leaves of Cephalanihus. 6. L. Cephalanthi. 



1. LamberteUa Hicoriae Whctzel, Lloydia 6: 33. 1943. 



Apothecia arising from stromatized hickory-nut hulls partially 

 buried in soil or leaf-mould, about 2 mm. in diameter, fleshy, 

 stipitate, brown or tawny-olive to dark vinaceous-brown; 

 hymenium olive-brown or fuscous; stem stout, light above, dark- 

 brown toward the base; asci cylindric-clavate, attenuated below, 

 rounded or truncate above, reaching a length of 101-127 ^ and a 

 diameter of 6-8//; spores obliquely 1 -seriate, later becoming 2- 



