100 The North American Cup-Fungi 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: Nova Scotia to Michigan; also in Europe. 

 Illustrations: Sacc. Fungi Ital. pi. 1306; Boud. Ic. Myc. 

 pi. 480 bis; Mycologia 28: 392 (lower figure). 



Excluded Species 



Chlorosplenium striisporum Ellis & Dearn. See Ascoholus striisportis 

 (Ellis & Dearn.) Seaver, N. Am. Cup-fungi Operculates 90. 1928. 



Chlorosplenium epimyces Cooke. See Ascoholus epimyces (Cooke) Seaver, 

 N. Am. Cup-fungi Operculates 9L 1928. 



Chlorosplenium canadense Ellis & Ev. See Holwaya gigantea. 



18. KRIEGERIA Rab. Hedwigia 17: 32. 1878. 

 Chloroscypha Seaver, Mycologia 23: 248. 1931. 



Apothecia gregarious, or scattered, sessile, or stipitate, 

 minute, or of medium size, yellowish-green to blackish when dry, 

 the substance yellowish-green by transmitted light and resem- 

 bling that of Ascobolus, occurring on the foliage of conifers, 

 Thuja, Sequoia, Lihocedrus, and Juniperus and apparently 

 parasitic; asci when young greenish, normally 8-spored; spores 

 comparatively large, at first granular and appearing greenish, 

 but hyaline when mature, typically fusiform, or more rarely 

 broad-ellipsoid, usualh* simple, rarely 1 -septate; paraphyses 

 slender, simple, or branched, surrounded by a greenish matri.x. 



Type species, Ombrophila Kriegeriana Rab. 



Occurring on foliage of Thuja. 



Apothecia subsessile; spores broad-fusoid. 1. K. Seaver i. 



Apothecia stipitate; spores narrow-fusoid. 2. K. enter ochroma. 

 Not on Thuja. 



On Sequoia; spores fusoid, 5 X 10 m- 3. K. chloromela. 



On Juniperus; spores broad-ellipsoid or fusoid, 10 X 



20 m. 



On leaves; spores simple. 4. K. juniper ina. 



On branches; spores often 1 -septate. 5. K. cedrina. 



On Lihocedrus; spores 4-5 X 18-19 m- 6. K. altUipes. 



1. Kriegeria Seaveri (Rehm) Seaver, Mycologia 35: 493. 1943. 

 (Plate 100.) 



?Omhrophila thujina Peck, Bull. N. Y. State Mus. 150: 60. 1911. 



Helotium Seaveri Rehm (in litt.). 1912. 



Chloroscypha Seaveri Seaver, Mycologia 23: 249. 1931. 



Apothecia minute, scarcely exceeding .5 mm. in diameter, 

 short-stipitate, occurring singly, or in small, cespitose clusters 



