Belonioscypha 177 



Belonidium fusco pallidum, Bres. Verb. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 52 : 434. 1 902. 

 This species has been reported from Michigan by Dr. B. Kanouse on wood of 

 Acer sp. The apothecia are described as olive-green and the hyphae pro- 

 jecting beyond the margin of the apothecium; spores 4-6 X 18-21 yu. No 

 material has been seen. 



Belonium fuscum Phill. & Hark. Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 23. 1884. 

 Apothecia short-stipitate, sooty-brown; spores 1-3-septate, 15-20 m long. On 

 dead stems of Sanicula Menziesii, California. 



Belonidium hirtipes A. L. Smith, Jour. Linn. Soc. 35: 14. 1901. Apo- 

 thecia stipitate, 2 mm. in diameter with stem 2 mm. long; spores 3-septate, 

 5 X 20-25 y.. On wood in Dominica. No material seen. 



Belonidium juncisedum (Karst.) Rehm in Rab. Krypt-Fl. 1': 568. 1891; 

 MoUisia jtuiciseda Karst. Myc. Fenn. 1: 198. 1871. Reported from Michigan 

 by Dr. B. Kanouse. No material seen. 



Harknessiella purpurea (Phill. & Hark.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 845. 1889; 

 Phillipsiella purpurea Phill. & Hark. Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 23. 1884. On 

 leaves of Garrya elliptica, California. The 3-septate spores would place this 

 in the genus Belonium. Compare Belonium Parksi Cash which occurs on the 

 same host. 



Belonidium sclerotii A. L. Smith, Jour. Linn. Soc. 35: 14. 1901. Spores 

 described as 3-septate, 3 X 20 /u. On decorticated branch in Dominica. 



29. BELONIOSCYPHA Rehm in Rab. Krypt.-Fl. P: 743. 1893. 



Apothecia scattered, stipitate, at first rotinded, expanding 

 and becoming campanulate, or turbinate, Hght-colored, exter- 

 nally smooth; asci clavate, or cyHndric, 4-8-spored; spores 

 elongated fusoid, becoming 3-septate, hyaline; paraphyses 

 filiform. 



Type species, Peziza Campanula Nees. 



Asci 4-spored. 1. B. lactea. 



Asci 8-spored. 2. B. miniata. 



1. Belonioscypha lactea (Ellis & Ev.) Seaver, comb. nov. 

 (Plate 109.) 



Helotium lacteum Ellis & Ev. Jour. Myc. 4: 56. 1888. 



Helotium lacteum Ellis & Ev. Proc. Acad. Sci. Phila. 1893: 145. 1893. 



Heloliella lactea Sacc. Syll. Fung. 11: 415. 1895. 



Apothecia thickly gregarious, or subconflucnt, stipitate, less 

 than 1 mm. in diameter, at first closed, opening and becoming 

 turbinate, white with a tinge of yellow, amber when dry; hy- 

 menium concave, or nearly plane; stem short, stout, the length 

 less than the diameter of the apothecium; asci cylindric-clavate, 

 reaching a length of 75-80 m and a diameter of 5 n, tapering into 

 a long, stem-like base, 4-spored; spores 1 -seriate, or overlapping 



