176 The North American Cup-Fungi 



Distribution: South Carolina to Alabama and Georgia. 

 ExsiCCATi: Ellis, N. Am. Fungi 668; Rav. Fungi Am. 310. 



18. Belonium culmicola (Desm.) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Peziza culmicola Destn. Ann. Sci. Nat. II. 6: 244. 1836. 

 Belonium vexatum DeNot. Comm. Critt. Ital, 1: 380. 1864. 

 Belonium Moliniae DeNot. Comm. Critt. Ital. 1: 380. 1864. 

 Peziza vexata Karst. Not. Soc. Fauna. Fl. Fenn. 10: 139. 1869. 

 Peziza subgibhosa Ellis, Bull. Torrey Club 6: 108. 1876. 

 Phialea culmicola Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 103. 1882. 

 Belonium subgibbosum Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 493. 1889. 

 Belonidium culmicolum Phill. Brit. Discom. 148. 1897. 



Apothecia scattered, or gregarious, sessile, or with a very 

 short, stem-like base, at first rounded, expanding and becoming 

 cup-shaped, or saucer-shaped, .2-1 mm. in diameter, externally 

 yellowish, or slightly reddish; hymenium pallid, yellowish, or 

 rosy; asci clavate-cylindric, reaching a length of 120-150 ^ and 

 a diameter of 12-15 m, 8-spored; spores fusiform, straight, or 

 curved, becoming 3-septate, 4-5 X 21-40 ju; paraphyses filiform, 

 somewhat enlarged above, 6 ju in diameter, brown. 



On dead stems of Andropogon and various other grasses. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: New Jersey; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: Phill. Brit. Discom. pi. 5,f. 29. 



ExsiccATi: Ellis, N. Am. Fungi 850 (as Peziza vexata DeNot.) 



Doubtful and Excluded Species 



Belonium arabicolum Ellis & Ev. Proc. Acad. Sci. Phila. 1894: 352. 

 1894. On stems of Arabis fiircata, Mt. Paddo, Washington. This is not a 

 discomycete. It looks like a Lophodermium. 



Beloniditim aurantiacum Rehm in Rab. Krypt-Fl. P: 564. 1891. Re- 

 ported by A. H. W. Povah from Michigan on dead culms of Calamagrostis. 

 No material seen. 



Belonium bicolor Ellis & Ev. Jour. Myc. 8: 69. 1902. Apothecia sessile, 

 nearly black when dry, less than 1 mm. in diameter; spores 6-8 X 15-20 /u, 

 becoming 3-septate. On Eupatorium, Tuskegee, Alabama. 



Belonium consanguineum Ellis & Ev. Jour. Myc. 8: 70. 1902. On Ilex, 

 Tuskegee, Alabama. According to Ellis this is close to B. bicolor. Each is 

 known only from the type collection. Both need further study. 



Belonium Delitschianum (Auersw.) Rehm in Rab. Krypt.-Fl. V: 689. 

 1892; Peziza Delitschiana Auersw. in Rab. Fungi Eu. 912. 1886; Coronellaria 

 Delitschiana Karst. Myc. Fenn. 1: 183. 1871. This species has been reported 

 from Michigan by Dr. B. Kanouse on rotten logs. The type was recorded on 

 Scirpus lacustris. No American material has been seen. In spite of the 

 difference in habitat Dr. Kanouse regards the American and European speci- 

 mens as identical. The spores are described as 3-septate and 6-7 X 25-40 y.. 



