94 The North American Cup-Fungi 



Type locality: Sausalito, California. 

 Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 

 Illustrations: Proc. Am. Acad. Sci. 59: pi. 1. 



4. Midotis versiformis (Pers.) Seaver, comb. nov. (Plate 99, 

 Fig. 1.) 



Peziza versiformis Pers. Ic. Descr. 25. 1798. 



Chlorosplenium versiforme DeNot. Comm. Critt. Ital. 1: 376. 1864. 



Helotium versiforme Berk. Outl. Brit. Fung. 372. 1860. 



Helotium rugipes Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 26: 82. 1874. 



Lanzia rugipes Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 480. 1889. 



Coryne versiformis Rehm in Rab. Krypt.-Fl. 1': 492. 1891. 



Chlorociboria versiformis Seaver, Mycologia 28: 393. 1936. 



Apothecia short-stipitate, becoming expanded and sub- 

 discoid, or more often elongated on one side, entirely light-green, 

 or olivaceous, occasionally brownish or orange, reaching a 

 diameter of 1-3 cm. ; stem short, usually not exceeding 4 or 5 mm., 

 rather stout; asci clavate, reaching a length of 100-110 m and a 

 diameter of 5-7 m, 8-spored; spores irregularly long-ellipsoid, 

 straight, or curved, 3-4 X 9-14 ^ occasionally becoming 1- 

 septate; paraphyses strongly enlarged above where they reach a 

 diameter of 2-3 ju, containing a greenish coloring matter. 



On decaying wood. 



Type locality : Europe. 



Distribution : New York and Massachusetts to Iowa and 

 south to Mexico. 



Illustrations: Boud. Ic. Myc. pi. 486; Bull. Lab. Nat. 

 Hist. State Univ. Iowa 6: pi. 24, f. 2; Pers. Ic. Descr. pi. 7,f. 7; 

 Berk. Outl. Brit. Fung. pi. 2, J. 6; Mycologia 28: 392 (upper 

 figure). 



ExsicCATi: Ellis, N. Am. Fungi 988. 



5. Midotis olivascens (Durand) Seaver, comb. nov. 

 lonomidolis olivascens Durand, Proc. .Am. Acad. Sci. 59: 13. 1923. 



Apothecia stipitate, solitary, gregarious, or rarely cespitose, 

 at first closed, then opening by a pore, finally becoming discoid, 

 nearly plane with a slightly upturned margin, reaching a di- 

 ameter of 1.5-3 mm., becoming unsymmetrical and Otidea-\\ke , 

 entirely blackish-olive, externally granular, or nearly smooth; 

 stem slender, reaching a length of 1-2 mm. and a diameter of .5 

 mm. attached at one side; hymenium nearly plane with a yel- 



