150 The North American Cup-Fungi 



Helotium furfuraceum Phill. & Hark. Bull. ("alif. Acad. Sci. 1: 24. 1884. 

 Scattered, minute, short-stipitate, or sessile, cyathiform, alutaceous, furfura- 

 ceous; asci clavate, 8-spored; spores ellipsoid, slightly curved, 5 X 15 a*- On 

 under side of dead leaves of Querciis agrifolia in California. Nothing more 

 known of the species. 



Helotium imberhe (Bull.) Fries, Summa Veg. Scand. 356. 1849; Peziza 

 imberbis Bull. Hist. Champ. Fr. 245, pi. 467, f. Z. 1791. This white species 

 has been reported from Wisconsin and Michigan. The determinations are 

 not at all certain. 



Pseudohelotium isabellinum Clements, Bot. Surv. Nebr. 4: 15. 1896. 

 Reported on wet twigs from Rock Creek, Ke\apaha County, Nebraska. No 

 material seen. 



Pezizella leguminum (Schw.) Sacc. S>11. Fung. 8: 290. 1889; Peziza 

 leguminum Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. Soc. n.4: 176. 1832. A minute, scattered, 

 emergent, brown species occurring on pods of Bignonia and Catalpa in Bethle- 

 hem, Pennsylvania. The fruit was not described and the species is in doubt. 



Phialea leucopsis (Berk. & Curt.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 264. 1889; Peziza 

 leucopsis Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Jour. Finn. Soc. 10: 368. 1868. Flesh-pallid, 

 irregular, the margin erect, then reflexed, 3-6 mm. in diameter; spores allan- 

 toid, 5 n long. On dead wood, Cuba. 



Discinella liv id o purpurea Boud. Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 4: 79. 1888; Humaria 

 lividopurpurea Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 124. 1889. This species has been reported 

 from Michigan by Dr. B. Kanouse. Since this was described by Boudier as an 

 inoperculate it should not have been placed in the genus Humaria as pointed 

 out by Dr. Kanouse. Its position is uncertain. 



Helotium microspis Karst. Myc. Fenn. 1: 152. 1871; Peziza microspis 

 Karst. Not. Soc. Fauna Fl. Fenn. 10: 178. 1869; Pezizella microspis Sacc. Syll. 

 Fung. 8: 281. 1889. Reported from Washington by Dr. B. Kanouse on 

 sedges. The description would indicate that it is very close to Helotium 

 citrinulum. 



Phialea microspora Seaver, Mycologia 17: 50. 1925. Apothecia dull- 

 yellow, stipitate, 1 mm. in diameter; spores 1.5-2 X 6 m- On leaves of 

 unidentified host in Porto Rico. 



Rutstroemia microspora Kanouse, Mycologia 39: 684. 1947. This species 

 is reported by its author as arising from a black stroma in old branches in 

 Washington. The general description would indicate that it belongs with our 

 genus Helotium. 



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

 Minute, white, clavate, short-stipitate, subglobose; asci clavate; spores sub- 

 clavate, contents finally four-parted, 12 ^ long. On bark among mosses in 

 Cuba. 



Helotium montaniense [montanense] Ellis & Anders. Bot. Gaz. 16: 45. 

 1891. The type specimen in the herbarium of The New York Botanical 

 Garden is too fragmentary to permit of study. 



Helotium monticola Berk. Grevillea 4: 1. 1875. On dead wood. North 

 Carolina. Described as "crowded, pale tawny, obovate; disc plane; sporidia 

 biseriate, subfusiform." A minute specimen, apparently from the type, in the 

 herbarium of The New York Botanical Garden is too meager for study. 



Helotium nigripes (Pers.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 215. 1889; Peziza nigripes 



