104 The North American Cup-Fungi 



spores fusoid, 5-8 X 18-20 n, multinucleate; paraphyses filiform, 

 rather abruptly enlarged above, the ends agglutinated together 

 and surrounded with a yellowish substance. 



On dead foliage of Lihocedrus decurrens. 



Type locality: Blue Canon, California. 



Distribution: California and Oregon. 



Authentic material collected by Dr. Harkness in California 

 has been studied. 



Doubtful Species 



Rutstroemia elatina (Alb. & Schw.) Rehm in Rab. Krypt.-Fl. P: 767. 

 1893; Peziza elatina Alb. & Schw. Consp. Fung. 330. pi. 2,f. 3. 1805; Cliloro- 

 splenium elatinum Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 318. 1889. This species is regarded 

 by White as synonymous with Ombrophila Kriegeriana on which this genus 

 was founded. It has been doubtfully recorded from North America. 



19. CHLOROSPLENIUM Fries, Summa Veg. Scand. 356. 1 849_ 



Apothecia sessile, or short-stipitate, not exceeding 1-3 mm. 

 in diameter with the margin upturned, yellowish; hymenium 

 concave, becoming olivaceous green; spores simple, hyaline; 

 paraphyses filiform, slightly clavate. 



Type species, Peziza chlora Schw. 



Apothecia yellowish. 1. C. chlora. 

 Apothecia sage-green or pea-green. 



Spores 1-1.25 X 3-4 m- 2. C. salviicolor. 



Spores 3-4 X 9-10 m- 3. C. olivaceum. 



1. Chlorosplenium chlora (Schw.) Massee, Jour. Linn. Soc. 35: 

 116. 1901. 



Peziza chlora Schw. Schr. Nat. Ges. Leipzig 1: 122. 1822. 

 Chlorosplenium Schweinitzii Fries, Summa Veg. Scand. 356. 1849. 

 Peziza crocitincia Berk. & Curt.; Cooke & Peck, Grevillea 1: 6. 1872. 

 ?Peziza pomicolor Berk. & Rav.; Berk. Grevillea 3: 157. 1875. 

 Pezizella crocitincta Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 286. 1889. 

 ? P seudohelotium pomicolor Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 300. 1889. 



Apothecia thickly gregarious, sessile, or subsessile, at first 

 closed and subglobose, becoming shallow cup-shaped with the 

 margin slightly incurved, externally slightly roughened but not 

 hairy, bright-yellow, reaching a diameter of 1-2 mm. ; hymenium 

 concave, or nearly plane, at first yellow, gradually becoming 

 green; asci clavate, reaching a length of 40 50 m and a diameter 

 of 6-8 n\ spores 2-seriate above, narrow-ellipsoid, or fusoid, 

 2 X 8 ju; paraphyses slender, reaching a diameter of 2 /x. 



