ClBORIELLA 107 



2. Pycnopeziza quisquiliaris (Ellis & Ev.) White & Whetzel, 



Mycologia 30: 192. 1938. 

 Cyathicula quisquiliaris Ellis & Ev. Proc. Acad. Sci. Phila. 1893: 451. 1893. 



Apothecia solitary, or gregarious, attached by a narrow 

 stipe-base, opening by a circular pore, finally saucer-shaped, 

 1-4 mm. in diameter, with a few dark squamules about the base, 

 furfuraceous above, yellowish or cream-colored; hymenium con- 

 cave, same color as the outside of the apothecium; asci clavate- 

 cylindric, reaching a length of 75-85 n and a diameter of 6-7 m. 

 8-spored; spores ellipsoid, irregularly 1 -seriate, 3-4 X 7-9 /x; 

 paraphyses filiform, 2.5 n in diameter, scarcely enlarged above. 



For description of pycnidial stage {Acarosporium quisquiliaris) 

 see Mycologia. 



On various kinds of over-wintering buds; also on leaf debris, 

 apparently of some herbaceous plants. 



Type locality: Nuttalburg, West Virginia. 



Distribution: West Virginia and New York. 



Illustrations: Mycologia 30: 189,/. 7-9; 194,/. 10; 197, 

 f.l4. 



21. ClBORIELLA Seaver, gen. nov. 



Apothecia stipitate, or substipitate, as in Ciboria, not stro- 

 matic; asci clavate, 8-spored; spores simple, ellipsoid to fusoid, 

 hyaline; paraphyses filiform. 



Apotheciis stipitatis vel substipatitis; Ciboria sine sclerotic; ascis clavatis, 

 8-sporis; sporis ellipsoideis vel fusoideis, hyalinis; paraphysibus filiformibus. 



Type species, Ciboria rufescens Kanouse. 



The genus Ciboria Fuckel has been restricted by H. H. 

 Whetzel to those forms occurring on flowers and fruits and 

 included in the Sclerotineae. The present genus is to include 

 similar forms which would be excluded from the Sclerotineae. 



1. Ciboriella rufescens (Kanouse) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Ciboria rufescens Kanouse, Mycologia 33: 463. 1941. 



Apothecia short-stipitate, firm-fleshy, gregarious, pale-orange 

 when fresh, blood-red when dry, exuding a red juice when bruised 

 in water, 2-5 mm. in diameter; stem slender, 1-2 mm. long; 

 asci clavate, reaching length of 35-60 n and a diameter of 7-8 n, 

 8-spored; spores fusoid, hyaline, simple, 3.5 X 7-8 /x; paraphyses 

 filiform. 



