Tapesia 197 



Apothecia for the most part gregarious, occasionally confluent, 

 seated on a thick, brown, mycelial subiculum, at first globose and 

 closed, opening and becoming cup-shaped, later expanded, 

 shallow cup-shaped, externally brown, reaching a diameter of 

 .2-2 mm., waxy; hymenium, gray, or yellowish-white; asci 

 clavate, reaching a length of 50-60 n and a diameter of 5-6 fx, 

 8-spored; spores fusiform, straight, or slightly curved, 2.5-3 X 

 9-12 n; paraphyses filiform 2 ju in diameter. 



On dead branches of Carpinns, Betula etc. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: Reported from Illinois and Nebraska: also in 

 Europe. 



Dr. B. Kanouse (Papers Mich. Acad. Sci. 20: 69. 1935.) 

 reports Tapesia lividofusca var. fallax (Desm.) Rehm on cones of 

 Picea mariana from Michigan. No material has been seen. 



9. Tapesia balsamicola (Peck) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 376. 1889. 

 Peziza balsamicola Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 34: 51. 1883. 



Apothecia seated on a subiculum consisting of two kinds of 

 mycelium one black, coarse and producing large, three- or four- 

 lobed, spore-like bodies, the other hyaline, delicate, producing 

 narrow-fusiform conidia, minute, less than .5 mm. in diameter, 

 sessile, smooth, waxy, whitish; asci clavate, reaching a length of 

 40-50 ijl; spores, subfusoid, with three or four oil-drops, 5-7 X 

 15-20 n; paraphyses filiform. 



On dead or dying leaves of Abies balsamea. 



Type locality: Stony Clove, Catskill Mountains, New York. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



Illustrations: Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 34: pi. 1, f. 

 14-21. 



Part of the type collection is in the herbarium of The New 

 York Botanical Garden. 



10. Tapesia secamenti Fairman, Ann. Myc. 8: 329. 1910. 



Apothecia seated on a white mycelium which is arachnoid 

 and radiating from the cup bottom, later becoming extended 

 and intricately interwoven and composed of simple, or sparingly 

 branched, continuous, smooth, hyaline hyphae 3 jj. thick, globose, 

 then expanded, brownish-olivaceous, sessile, about 1 mm. in 

 diameter; hymenium white at first, often becoming pale straw- 

 colored; asci fusoid-cylindric, reaching a length of 57 ju and a 



