Helotium 149 



Helotium aurantiacum Cooke; Phill. Grevillea 19: 106. 1891. This 

 orange-yellow species is described as having spores 4-5 X 14-18 /u> becoming 

 pseudoseptate. On the under side of decaying leaves, United States. The 

 species is in doubt. 



Helotium brassicaecolum (Schw.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 226. 1889; Sarea 

 brassicaecola Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 4: 178. 1832. Saccardo places 

 this doubrfully in the genus Helotium. Nothing more is known of it. 



Helotium Buccina (Pers.) Fries, Summa Veg. Scand. 355. 1849; Peziza 

 Buccina Pers. Syn. Fung. 659. 1801. This has been reported from North 

 America by Saccardo on pine branches. It is usually regarded as a basidiomy- 

 cete, Guepiniopsis. 



Helotium caraborum Vel. Monog. Di.scom. Bohem. 1: 208. 1934. Apo- 

 thecia less than 1 mm. in diameter, milky-gray; spores 4-5 X 8-10 ju- Re- 

 ported from Lake Crescent, Washington on moss by Dr. B. Kanouse. No 

 material seen. 



Phialea carneola Sacc; Sacc. Peck, & Trelease in Harriman Alaska Exped. 

 5: 25. 1904. This is said to be close to P. cyathoidea but differs slightly in 

 color and size of spores, 3-3.5 X 11-14 jx. 



Helotium Cecropiae P. Henn. Hedwigia 41: 25. 1902; Phialea Cecropiae 

 Seaver, Mycologia 17: 50. 1925. This species has been recorded from Porto 

 Rico by the writer on leaves of Cecropia. 



Helotium conformatum Karst. Not. Soc. Fauna Fi. Fen. 11: 236. 1871. 

 Peziza conformata Karst. Not. Soc. Fauna FI. Fenn. 10: 149. 1869. This 

 species has been reported from Michigan by Dr. B. Kanouse. No material 

 has been seen. 



Phialea crocea (Schw.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 261. 1889; Peziza crocea Schw. 

 Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. II. 4: 176. 1832. Saccardo suggests that this may be a 

 Guepinia. 



Helotium crocinum Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 369. 1868. 

 Described as yellow, obconic, with a short, thick stem, crateriform, the margin 

 inflexed. On dead twigs, Cuba. Drawings from the type by Massee in the 

 herbarium of The New York Botanical Garden show the spores 1-septate 

 which would make it a Calloria. Specimens in the herbarium of The New 

 York Botanical Garden from Ohio are claimed by Massee, through whom the 

 specimens came, to agree with the type of this species. 



Helotium discretum Karst. Not. Soc. Fauna FI. Fenn. 1: 235. 1871; 

 Phialea discreta Rehm in Rab. Krypt.-Fl. V: 729. 1893. This species has 

 been reported on gooseberry (Ribes) cane from Washington by Dr. B. Kanouse. 

 No material seen. 



Helotium ferrugineum (Schum.) Fries, Summa Veg. Scand. 356. 1849; 

 Peziza ferruginea Schum. PI. Saell. 2: 429. 1803. This species on dead leaves 

 of Quercus, has been reported from North America. No material has been seen. 



Helotium fumigatnm Sacc. & Sacc. & Speg. Michelia 2: 78. 1880; Sacc. 

 Syll. Fung. 8: 235. 1889. Reported from Alaska by Saccardo in Harriman 

 Alaska Exped. 5: 26. 1904. On decaying herbaceous stems, Yakutat Bay, 

 Alaska. 



Helotium fumosum Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 2632; Sacc. Syll. Fung. 11: 

 403. 1895. No description has been seen and apparently it was never pub- 



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