160 The North American Cup-Fungi 



8-spored; spores bacilliform, 1 X 6-12 yu, 2-seriate; paraphyses 

 filiform, gradually enlarged above, 3 n in diameter. 



On rotten wood. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: New Jersey to Pennsylvania, and West 

 Virginia; also in Europe. 



19. Orbilia pulviscula (Cooke) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Peziza pulviscula Cooke, Hedwigia 14: 84. 1875. 

 Peziza pulviscula Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 278. 1889. 



Apothecia gregarious, subtremelloid, at first globose, pallid 

 to yellowish .4 mm. in diameter; asci cylindric, reaching a length 

 of 30 M and a diameter of 5 ju; spores minute, spermatoid. 



On stems of Phytolacca. 



Type locality: New York. 



Distribution: New York and (New Jersey?). 



While this species was placed in the subgenus MoUisia by its 

 authors, the general description would indicate an Orbilia. 

 This species was based on specimens collected by W. R. Gerard. 

 Specimen in The New York Botanical Garden is evidently a part 

 of the type. A second specimen collected at Newfield, New 

 Jersey has been referred to this species by J. B. Ellis. 



20. Orbilia myriospora (Phill. & Hark.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 631. 

 1889. 



Calloria myriospora Phill. & Hark. Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 23. 1884. 

 Myridium myriosporum Clements, Gen. Fungi 174. 1909. 



Apothecia minute, scattered, convex, pale rose-red; asci 

 clavate; spores excessively minute, innumerable; paraphyses 

 slender, abundant. 



On dead stems of Psoralea macrostacliya. 



Type locality: California. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



Saccardo (Syll. Fung. 8: 631. 1889) founded a new sub- 

 genus Myriella on this species, but Clements had previously 

 founded the genus Myridium on the same species. 



Doubtful and Excluded Species 

 Orbilia assimilis (Cooke & Peck) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 629. 1889; Peziza 

 assimilis Cooke & Peck, Grevillea 1: 5. 1872. Apothecia described as erum- 

 pent, dull-orange; spores 3 X39 )u. On stems of Aster puniceus, West .'\lbany, 

 New York. This looks like Calloria fusarioides. 



