212 The North American Cup-Fungi 



cinereous-black; asci clavate-cylindric ; spores narrowly fusiform, 

 2.5 X 30 n; paraphyses filiform. 



On culms of Atidropogon and Spartina. 



Type locality: New Jersey. 



Distribution: New Jersey and Louisiana. 



ExsiccATi: Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 1779 (on Spartina 

 polystachya). 



29. Mollisia scirpina (Peck) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 348. 1889. 

 Peziza scirpina Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 28: 67. 1876. 



Apothecia minute, scattered, erumpent, smooth, externally 

 black, grayish within; asci cylindric, 8-spored; spores crowded, 

 fusiform, straight, or slightly curved, with two oil-drops, 20-25 jj, 

 long. 



On dead stems of Scirpus caespitosus. 



Type locality: Adirondack Mountain, N. Y. 



Distribution : Known only from the type locality'. 



30. Mollisia stictoidea (Cooke & Ellis) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 348. 

 1889. 



Peziza stictoidea Cooke & Ellis, Grevillea 6: 8. 1877. 



Apothecia erumpent, sparse, .1-.12 mm. in diameter, becom- 

 ing stictoid when dry, brownish-black; hymenium pallid; asci 

 clavate; spores fusoid, 3 X 16 /x. 



On J uncus. 



Type locality: New Jersey. 



Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 



Illustrations: Grevillea 6: pi. 96, f. 37. 



The erumpent character of the apothecia would indicate a 

 Pyreno peziza. Cooke states: "Margin longitudinally connivent 

 when dry, and retracted, hence it resembles a minute Stictis.'' 



31. Mollisia Iridis (Rehm) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 331. 1889. 



Micropeziza Iridis Rehm, x'\scom. Lojk. 16. 1882. 



Apothecia when dry oblongate, or rotundate, more or less 

 hemispheric, finally expanded, sessile, gregarious, subfuscous, 

 margin yellowish-green, .3 mm. in diameter; hymenium brownish: 

 asci clavate, reaching a length of 50 jx and a diameter of 9 yu, 4-8- 

 spored; spores ellipsoid, 2-seriate, with one to four oil-drops, 

 4 X 18-21 ^t; paraphyses filiform, enlarged above to 3.5 ju. 



