Tapesia 195 



Ellis states: "When dry the opposite sides of the ascomata 

 are rolled together in a hysteriform manner. The habit is that 

 of Angelina rufescens Duby." "The mycelium penetrates the 

 wood and causes the stems to swell in the same manner as 

 Monfagnella tumefaciens E. & M." 



3. Tapesia culcitella (Cooke & Ellis) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 374. 



1889. 



Peziza culcitella Cooke & Ellis, Grevillea 6: 7. 1877. 



Apothecia gregarious, about 1 mm. broad, at first depressed 

 urn-shaped, expanding to plane, seated on a sparse, brown, 

 byssoid stratum, at first milk-white, pallid, or yellowish when 

 dry, externally quite smooth; asci narrowly clavate-cylindric; 

 spores narrow-ellipsoid, 2 X 8 m! paraphyses filiform. 



Inside an old oak stump, Quercus. 



Type locality: Newfield, New Jersey. 



Distribution: Newfoundland and New Jersey. 



Exsiccati: Ellis, N. Am. Fungi 388. 



This looks like MoUisia melaleuca except for the subiculum. 



4. Tapesia mollisioides (Schw.) Sacc. Michelia 2: 140. 1880. 

 Peziza mollisiaeoides Schw. Trans. Am. Phil. See. II. 4: 174. 1832. 



Apothecia seated on a brownish-black subiculum, minute, 

 about .12 mm. in diameter, becoming plane, or slightly concave, 

 sessile, brown; hymenium paler; asci clavate, reaching a length 

 of 50-55 /x and a diameter of 10 m, 8-spored; spores ellipsoid to 

 subfusoid, 3 X 8-9 n, slightly curved; paraphyses filiform. 



On old wood. 



Type locality: Pennsylvania. 



Distribution: New England to Ohio and South Carolina. 



5. Tapesia Rosae (Pers.) Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 301. 1869. 



Peziza Rosae Pers. Syst. Myc. 656. 1801. 

 MoUisia Rosae Karst. Myc. Fenn. 1: 208. 1871. 

 Lachnea Rosae Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 92. 1882. 



Apothecia sparse, or gregarious, seated on a broadly effused 

 subiculum of brown hyphae, subtomentose, or smooth, brown, 

 slightly concave, coriaceous, contracted and deformed when dry, 

 1 mm. in diameter; hymenium grayish-white; asci cylindric- 

 clavate, reaching a length of 45-60 ^x and a diameter of 6-8 ju, 

 8-spored; spores, fusoid, 2-2.5 X 7-9 ^; paraphyses filiform. 



On stems of species of Rosa. 



