130 The North American Cup-Fungi 



less than 1 mm. long, or absent; asci clavate, gradually tapering 

 below, reaching a length of 80 ^ and a diameter of 6-7 /x, 8- 

 spored; spores irregularly 2-seriate, fusoid, slightly curved, con- 

 taining several small oil-drops, often spuriously septate, 3-4 X 

 10-14 ju; paraphyses filiform, reaching a diameter of 1-2 n. 



On herbaceous stems of various kinds, Impatiens and Eiipa- 

 torium. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: New York to Maine, Michigan and Kansas; 

 also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Boud. Ic. Myc. pJ. 497; Gill. Champ. Fr. 

 Discom. pi. 89 J. 2; E. & P. Nat. Pfl. 1^: 207,/. 162 CD; Rab. 

 Krypt.-Fl. P: 770,/. 1-4. 



ExsicCATi: Ellis, N. Am. Fungi 670; Ellis & Ev. Fungi 

 Columb. 740, 1309; Reliq. Farlow. 124 (as Helotium herbariim 

 Ruhi). 



26. Helotium renisporum Ellis; Cooke, Bull. Buffalo Soc. Nat, 

 Sci. 2: 299. 1875. 



?Ciboria Sydowiana Rehm, Hedwigia 24: 226. 1885. 

 Hymenoscypha renispora Phill. Brit. Discom. 143. 1887. 

 Ciboria renispora Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 207. 1889. 

 Rutstroemia renispora White, Lloydia 4: 215. 1941. 



Apothecia stipitate, slightly concave, or plane, from black 

 stromatic lines in the leaf, cinnamon, or brownish-yellow, reach- 

 ing a diameter of 2 mm., externally clothed with adpressed, brown, 

 club-shaped hair-like structures; hymenium similar in color to 

 the outside of the apothecium, usually plane, or convex at 

 maturity; stem blackish, reaching a length of 3-6 mm.; asci 

 cylindric, or subcylindric, reaching a length of 65-100 ju and a 

 diameter of 7-10 ^; spores reniform, with two or three oil-drops, 

 5-6 X 10-14 /x; paraphyses slender, slightly clavate. 



On decaying leaves. 



Type locality: Newfield, New Jersey. 



Distribution: New Jersey and Pennsylvania to South 

 Carolina. 



Illustrations: Lloydia 4: 214,/. 62-65. 



Exsiccati: Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 2049. 



Phillips, in his British Discomycetes cited above, regards 

 Rehm's European species as identical with Ellis' American form, 

 characterized by its reniform spores. W. L. White claims that 



