204 The North American Cup-Fungi 



spores obliquely arranged, or 2-seriate, with two or three oil- 

 drops, slightly curved, 3 X 9-12 /i. 



On rotten wood of Magnolia. 



Type locality: New Jersey. 



Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 



No specimen found in New York Botanical Garden Her- 

 barium. 



9. Mollisia glenospora (Ellis & Ev.) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 343. 



1889. 



Peziza glenospora Ellis & Ev. Bull. Torrey Club 11: 18. 1884. 



Apothecia sessile, orbicular, .25-. 5 mm. in diameter, dull- 

 white, becoming darker, the margin fringed with a row of erect, 

 subcylindric, continuous, hair-like cells, 2 X 8-10 n\ asci cylin- 

 dric-clavate, reaching a length of 75-80 jx and a diameter of 

 9-10 n; spores ellipsoid, or more acute at one end, with a single 

 oil-drop, 7-8 X 12-15 /x; paraphyses curved and swollen at their 

 apices. 



On rotten Magnolia. 



Type locality: New Jersey. 



Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 



10. Mollisia vulgaris (Fries) Gill. Champ. Fr. Discom. 119. 



1882. 



Peziza vulgaris Fries, Syst. Myc. 2: 146. 1822. 

 Pezizella vulgaris Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 278. 1889. 

 Phialea vulgaris Rehm in Rab. Krypt.-Fl. V: 709. 1892. 



Apothecia subcespitose, membranaceous, sessile, 1 mm. in 

 diameter; hymenium concave, white, or pallid-white; asci 

 cylindric-clavate, reaching a length of 35-45 n and a diameter of 

 5-6 /x, 8-spored; spores elongate-ellipsoid, straight, or curved, 

 1.5-2 X 6-9 ju; paraphyses filiform. 



On rotten wood. 



Type locality : Europe. 



Distribution: New Jersey and South Carolina; also in 

 Europe. 



ExsiCCATi: Rav. Fungi Car. 4: 18. 



Berkeley (Grevillea 3: 159. 1875) records two varieties of 

 this species: var. myceticola on decaying Polyporus, and on oak 

 Santee River, South California; sanguinella with a pale-orange 

 disc, on Ligiiidamhar , from South Carolina and New England. 



