96 The North American Cup-Fungi 



Type locality: South America. 



Distribution: West Indies and Costa Rica; also in South 

 America. 



Illustration: Ann. Sci. Nat. II. 13: pi. 6,f. 3. 



8. Midotis occidentalis Durand, Proc. Am. Acad. Sci. 59: 6. 



1923. 



Apothecia small, scattered, or closely gregarious, stipitate, 

 coriaceous, elongated on one side and split to the stem on the 

 other, reaching a length and width of 3-5 mm., externally 

 blackish-brown, vertically striated; hymenium brownish; stem 

 reaching a length of 3-7 mm. and a thickness of 1 mm., gradually 

 expanding above into the apothecium; asci clavate-cylindric, 

 apex rounded, reaching a length of 80 /x, 8-spored; spores 1- 

 seriate, hyaline, smooth, ovoid-ellipsoid, 3 X 5-6 pt; paraphyses 

 slender, hyaline, not thickened above, longer than the asci. 



On a decaying log. 



Type locality: Mabess River, Jamaica. 



Distribution: Known only from the t\pe locality. 



9. Midotis Westii Seaver, sp. nov. (Plate 97.) 



Apothecia in dense, semiglobose clusters springing from a 

 common base, the clusters reaching a diameter of 1-2 cm. and 

 consisting of twelve to fifteen apothecia closely crowded together, 

 individual apothecia subturbinate and vertically striated outside, 

 the striations very prominent in dried specimens, the flesh thick 

 and coriaceous when fresh, corky when dry, becoming more or 

 less one sided, externally pale-brown, lighter below, reaching a 

 diameter of 7 mm.; hymenium slightly concave, darker than the 

 outside of the apothecium; asci clavate, reaching a length of 60 ^l 

 and a diameter of 5-6 ju, 8-spored; spores minute, about 2 X 

 4-5 ju; paraphyses slender, slightly enlarged above, not over 2 n 

 in diameter at their apices. 



Apotheciis dense caespitosis, subturbinatis, extus verticalis striatis, 7 mm. 

 diam., hymenio concavo, dilute bruneo; ascis clavatis, 8-sporis, 5-6 X 60 mI 

 sporis 2 X 4-5 n; paraphysibus clavatis, 2 m diam. 



On wood of Ostrya. 



Type locality: Sanchez Hammock, near Gainesville, 

 Florida. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



