Helotium 125 



14. Helotium epiphyllum (Pers.) Fries, Summa Veg. Scand. 356. 

 1849. 



Peziza epiphylla Pers. Tent. Disp. Fung. 72. 1797. 

 CaJycina aurantiaca Kuntze, Rev. Gen. Pi. 3'': 448. 1898. 



Hymenoscypha epiphylla Rehm; Kauffm. Papers Mich. .\cad. Sci. 9: 177. 

 1929. 



Apothecia scattered, or in groups of two to four, sessile to 

 short-stipitate, bright-yellow, or dull-orange when fresh, the 

 color not changing much on drying, fleshy to waxy, reaching a 

 diameter of 4 mm.; stem when present exceedingly short, pale- 

 yellow; hymenium slightly concave to plane, or sometimes 

 repand, becoming yellow to orange, or occasionally dull-red; 

 asci clavate, reaching a length of 90 130 m and a diameter of 

 9-12 /x, 8-spored; spores fusoid, more or less unsymmetrical or 

 slightly curved, simple, 1-seriate below, 2-seriate above, 4-5 X 

 16-20 ix, granular, often with two or three definite oil-drops; 

 paraphyses straight, scarcely thickened above, reaching a diam- 

 eter of 2-3 y.. 



On leaves of various deciduous or more rarely coniferous 

 trees; also on forest debris. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: Probably throughout the United States and 

 Canada; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Farlowia 1: 143,/. 1. 



ExsicCATi: Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 2328. 



On Sept. 13, 1935, the writer examined a specimen of this 

 species in the Persoon Herbarium at Leiden, Holland, and it 

 showed three yellowish apothecia about 3 mm. in diameter on a 

 leaf labeled Corylus. No microscopic examination was possible. 



15. Helotium cudonioides Seaver, Mycologia 37: 267. 1945. 



Apothecia stipitate, single, or cespitose, at first concave, soon 

 becoming strongly convex, reaching a diameter of 2 mm., pale- 

 to dark-brown; stem white or nearly white, reaching a length of 

 2-3 mm. and less than 1 mm. in diameter; asci clavate, 8-spored, 

 reaching a length of 100 ix and a diameter of 10-12 n; spores 1- 

 seriate below and irregularh" 2-seriate above, fusoid, hyaline, 

 about 5 X 16-20 m; paraphyses filiform, 1 m or less in diameter. 



On rotten wood. 



Type locality: Cleveland, Ohio. 



