202 The North American Cup-Fungi 



Apothecia sessile, gregarious, concave with the margin sub- 

 incurved, then expanding to plane, or sHghtly convex, reaching 

 a diameter of .75 mm., externall}^ clothed with glandular hair-like 

 structures; hymenium livid, paler toward the margin; asci 

 clavate-cylindric, reaching a length of 35-40 n and a diameter of 

 4-5 n; spores 2-seriate or partially so, ellipsoid, the lower end 

 often more acute, 2-2.5 X 3.5-4.5 /x. 



On inner bark lying on the ground. 



Type locality: Lyndonville, New York. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



3. Mollisia melaleuca (Fries) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 337. 1889. 



Peziza melaleuca Fries, Syst. Myc. 2: 150. 1822. 

 Niptera melaleuca Fuckel, Symb. Myc. 292. 1869. 

 Patellaria melaleuca Quel. Ench. Fung. 325. 1886. 

 Mollisia lignicola Phill. Grevillea 15: 113. 1887. 

 Pyrenopeziza lignicola Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 366. 1889. 



Apothecia sessile, waxy, becoming patellate, externally 

 rough, becoming black; hymenium whitish; asci cylindric- 

 clavate, acuminate, 8-spored; spores 2-seriate, cylindric, slightly 

 curved, 2 X 8 ju; paraphyses filiform, 2.5 fx in diameter. 



On old wood. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: Maine to Ontario and Michigan; also in 

 Europe. 



4. Mollisia microcarpa (Fuckel) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 340. 1889. 

 Niptera (?) microcarpa Fuckel, Symb. Myc. Nacht. 1: 46. 1871. 



Apothecia gregarious, or scattered, sessile, 1 mm. in diameter, 

 watery-transparent, pale-brown, externally lightly strigose, at 

 first closed, then opening; hymenium concave, flexuous, same 

 color; asci clavate-cylindric, 8-spored, reaching a length of 30 ^ 

 and a diameter of 8 ju; spores 2-seriate, fusoid, 2.5 X 8 m; pa- 

 raphyses filiform. 



On rotten wood. 



Type locality: Europe. 



Distribution: Michigan; also in Europe. 



Reported from Michigan by Dr. B. Kanouse but no specimen 

 seen. 



