Belonium 173 



pilose, or nearly smooth; asci clavate-cylindric, reaching a length 

 of 45-55 n and a diameter of 6-7 n, 8-spored ; spores 2-seriate, 

 fusoid, slightly curved, hyaline, 3-septate, 3-3.5 X 14-20 /x; 

 paraphyses not observed. 



On dead stems oi Aralia racemosa. 



Type locality: Granogue, Delaware. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



10. Belonium inconspicuum Cash, Mycologia 28: 304. 1936. 



Apothecia superficial, sessile, occurring singly, smooth, 

 patellate, thin-membranaceous, .3-. 5 mm. in diameter, brownish- 

 black; hymenium drab; asci clavate, tapering into a short stem, 

 reaching a length of 50 65 n and a diameter of 8-10 n, 8-spored; 

 spores ellipsoid to broad-clavate, obliquely 1 -seriate to irregu- 

 larly 2-seriate, hyaline, 3-septate, not constricted, 4-5 X 12-15 ju; 

 paraphyses septate, branched with globose, olive-brown, gluti- 

 nous tips 5 /x in diameter, forming an agglutinated layer. 



On decorticated twigs of Abies. 



Type locality: Grand Mesa, Colorado. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



Illustrations: Mycologia 28: 302,/. 2. 



11. Belonium aggregatum Cash, Mycologia 28: 303. 1936. 



Apothecia sessile, urceolate to patellate, soft-fleshy, densely 

 crowded on a more or less evident subiculum of pale-olivaceous 

 hyphae, fuscous-black to olivaceous-black; hymenium of the 

 same color with the margin paler and fimbriate, the entire 

 fungus black when dry; asci cylindric-clavate, slightly narrowed 

 at the apex, reaching a length of 50-65 n and a diameter of 6-7 y., 

 8-spored; spores 1 2-seriate, clavate to cylindric, 1-3-septate, 

 not constricted, 2.5-3 X 13-15 fx; paraphyses filiform, un- 

 branched, septate, hyaline, slightly enlarged at the apex, 2 ^ in 

 diameter. 



On decorticated wood of Populus tremuloides and on Salix. 



Type locality: Mesa Lakes, Colorado. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



Illustrations: Mycologia 28: 302,/. 5. 



The subiculum would suggest a Trichobelonium. 



12. Belonium sclerogenum (Berk. & Curt.) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Peziza sclerogena Berk. & Curt.; Berk. Jour. Linn. Soc. 10: 369. 1868. 

 Belonidium sclerogenum Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 497. 1889. 



