Belonium 169 



Peziza mycogena Ellis, Bull. Torrey Club 6: 107. 1876. Apothecia 

 minute, pale with a greenish tinge; spores ellipsoid, appearing to become 

 1-septate, 7.5 ^l long. On old Polyporus igniarius buried in leaves, New Jersey. 

 No material seen. 



Niptera pella Clements, Crypt. Form. Colo. 88. 1906. On Streptopus 

 amplexifolius , Jack Brook, Colorado. No other publication seen. 



Niptera tyrolensis (Sacc.) Rehm in Rab. Krypt.-Fl. P: 554. 1891; 

 Mollisia tyolensis Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 333. 1889. This species has been 

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



Niptera uda (Pers.) Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 293. 1869; Pezi::a uda Pers. 

 Syn. Fung. 634. 1801; Mollisia uda Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 127. 1882. 

 Reported from Michigan by A. H. W. Povah. No material seen. 



28. BELONIUM Sacc. Rot. Cent. 18: 219. 1884. 



Belonidium Rehm in Rab. Krypt.-Fl. l'^: 561. 1891. Not Mont. & Dur. 



1846. 

 Massea Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 488. 1889. 

 Harknessiella Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 845. 1889. 



Apothecia sessile, or short-stipitate, cup-shaped to scutellate, 

 black, brownish or occasionally yellowish, or reddish, usually 

 smooth or not distinctly hairy; asci cylindric-clavate, 8-sporcd; 

 spores fusiform to elongate, 2- to many-septate, hyaline; paraphy- 

 ses filiform. 



Type species, Peziza graminis Desm. 



The presence of a short, stem-like base has been used to 

 separate Belonidium from Belonium. The character is not 

 regarded as a satisfactory one on which to separate the two 

 genera. 



On dicotyledonous plant tissues. 

 Spores very large, 35-40 m long. 



Spores 3-septate, on Glyceria. 1. B. Glyceriae. 



Spores more than 3-septate. 

 Spores 4-8-septate. 



Spores 36-40 m long. 2. B. basitrichum. 



Spores 40-50 n long. 3. B. intros pedum. 



Spores many-septate, 40-60 ^l long. 4. B. tympanoides. 



Spores not over 35 ^x long. 

 Spores 30-33 n long. 



Apothecia greenish. 5. B. Parksi. 



Apothecia not greenish. 



On decaying Magnolia. 6. B. phlegmaceiint. 



On undetermined wood. 7. B. quisquiliarum. 



Spores 10-20 ^ long. 



Spores 10-12 /j. long. 8. B. atrosanguineum. 



Spores 12-20 n long. 



