68 The North American Cup-Fungi 



toid, granular, becoming golden-brown, 4-5 X 11-14 m; para- 

 physes filiform, sparingly branched. 



On leaves of Coccoloba? 



Type locality: British Honduras. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



Illustrations: Lloydia 6: 50,/. 7. 



4. Lambertella Pruni Whetzel & Zeller, Lloydia 6: 40. 1943. 



Apothecia gregarious, as many as a hundred springing from 

 a single stromatized fruit, the stroma consisting of a thin, 

 wrinkled, black crust surrounding the host, the individual 

 apothecia 1.5 mm. in diameter when mature, short-stipitate to 

 sessile, externally furfuraceous, the margin fringed with short 

 hyphal tips, brown; hymenium plane or convex, pale-brown, 

 darker with age; stem very short, sharply constricted at point of 

 attachment and black at the base; asci cylindric, slightly nar- 

 rowed above, attenuated at the base, reaching a length of 115- 

 150 ji and a diameter of 10-14 n; spores 1 -seriate, lunate, with 

 broad, blunt ends, smooth, containing two oil-drops, golden- 

 brown, becoming dark olivaceous-brown at maturity, 7-8 X 12- 

 15 /x; paraphyses branched, septate, slightly enlarged above. 



On mummied fruits and seedlings of sweet cherry, Primus 

 avium. 



Type locality: Reynold's Estate near Salem, Oregon. 



Distribution: Known onh' from the type locality. 



Illustrations: Lloydia 6: 36, pi. 4,f. 4; p. 41,/. 4. 



5. Lambertella Viburni Whetzel, Lloydia 6: 43. 1943. 



Apothecia scattered, stipitate, arising from a subcuticular 

 stromatic base, restricted largely to the veins of the leaves, 

 individual apothecia small, .5-2 mm. in diameter, externally 

 fibrillose, light-bufT, the margins dark-brown, incurved, rimmed 

 with hyphal tips; hymenium shallow-concave to plane, light- 

 brown; stem stout, cinnamon-brown, lighter above, hirsute; asci 

 slender-cylindric, tapering slightly below, rounded above, reach- 

 ing a length of 60-1 14 n and a diameter of 8-9 jx; spores ellipsoid, 

 bluntly apiculate, flattened on one side, light-brown, becoming 

 darker after discharge, 4-6 X 12-18 ju, with two oil-drops; 

 paraphyses apparently simple, actually fasciculately 3-branched 

 near the base, septate, slightly enlarged at the tips. 



On hanging dead leaves of Viburnum cassinoides. 



