178 The North American Cup-Fungi 



and becoming 2-seriate, fusoid, often curved, 2-3 X 10-15 n; 

 paraphyses filiform. 



On decorticated wood. 



Type locality: Cazenovia, New York. 



Distribution: New York and Pennsylvania. 



Excellent specimens of this species were sent to the writer by 

 L. O. Overholts Dec. 19, 1927 with the following note: "This 

 was collected in abundance, and I can get enormous quantities 

 of it, growing as thickly scattered as the sample, for 20 ft. or 

 more along the side of an old Liriodendron log." His specimens 

 agree perfectly with the type in the herbarium of The New York 

 Botanical Garden. 



This species was described twice as a new species both based 

 on the same specimen. Ellis did not mention the 4-spored 

 character of the asci but his material is apparently so. 



2. Belonioscypha miniata Kanouse, Mycologia 39: 640. 1947. 



Apothecia stipitate, .2-.4 mm. in diameter, flat when moist 

 with the margin slightly inroUed, delicately roughened by gran- 

 ules of an amorphous deposit outlining the cup, creamy-yellow 

 when fresh, drying pale-yellow; stem very short; asci cylindric- 

 clavate, reaching a length of 50 70 n and a diameter of 6-9 ;x, 

 8-spored; spores usually 2-seriate, fusoid, straight, or slightly 

 curved, subhyaline, 3-septate, 2-3 X 10-12 ;u; paraphyses fili- 

 form not enlarged above. 



On old leaves of Carex. 



Type locality: Lake Tahkenitch, Oregon. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality 



Illustrations: Mycologia 39: 649, f. 4-6. 



30. GORGONICEPS Karst. Myc. Fenn. 1: 15. 1871. 

 Belonopsis Sacc. Syll. Fung. 16: 752. 1902. 



Apothecia sessile, or short-stipitate, soft and waxy, yellowish, 

 or ochraceous, turbinate to subdiscoid, or scutellatc, seldom 

 exceeding 2-3 mm. in diameter and often less than 1 mm.; asci 

 cylindric to clavate, typically 8-spored; spores elongate, filiform, 

 fusiform, or vermiform, usually becoming multiseptate, hyaline; 

 paraphyses filiform, enlarged above and often branched. 



Type species, Gorgoniceps aridula Karst. 



The genus A postemidium which is usually treated with the Geo- 

 glossaceae is close to the present genus and some regard them as 



