156 The North American Cup-Fungi 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: New Jersey to Wisconsin and Louisiana; also 

 in Europe and South America. 



ExsicCATi: C. L. Smith, Centr. Am. Fungi 50. 



The species is similar to Orbilia leucostigma but smaller. 



9. Orbilia vinosa (Alb. & Schw.) Karst. Myc. Fenn. 1: 101. 



1871. 



Pezim vinosa Alb. & Schw. Consp. Fung. 308. 1805. 

 CaUoria vinosa Fries, Summa Veg. Scand. 359. 1849. 

 Mollisia vinosa Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 125. 1882. 



Apothecia scattered, more rarely crowded, sessile, at first 

 rounded and closed, expanding and becoming plane, or slightly 

 concave, flesh-colored to dark-red, .2-1 mm. in diameter; asci 

 cylindric-clavate, reaching a length of 40-50 ^ and a diameter of 

 4-5 yu, 8-spored; spores bacilliform to fusoid, 1.5-2 X 12-17 fx; 

 paraphyses filiform, subglobose above, 4 ^ in diameter. 



On rotten wood of various kinds; also on fabric. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: Massachusetts and New Jersey to Michigan, 

 Iowa and South Carolina; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Bull. Soc. Myc. Fr. 4: pi. 22, f. 1-6; E. & P. 

 Nat. Pfl. 11: 217,/. 169, D; Rab. Krypt.-Fl. V: 447, f. 1; PhiU. 

 Brit. Discom. pi. 10, f. 63. 



Exsiccati: Rav. Fungi Car. 4: 19; Ellis, N. Am. Fungi 142, 

 1313. 



A fine collection of this species was found on an old discarded 

 bedtick in Woods Hole, Massachusetts during the summer of 

 1946. 



10. Orbilia phymatodes (Phill.) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Peziza phymatodes Phill. Grevillea 5: 117. 1877. 

 Pezizella phymatodes Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 285. 1889. 



Apothecia scattered, at first spherical, then expanded and 

 cup-shaped, reddish, or flesh-colored, smooth, faintly striate, the 

 margin thin, paler; asci subclavate, 8-spored; spores elongate- 

 fusoid, 3-4 X 13-16 m; paraphyses filiform. 



On reeds. 



Type locality: Blue Canon, California. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



Illustrations: Grevillea 5: pi. 88, f. 9. 



