214 The North American Cup-Fungi 



On dead stems of Juncus alpinus. 

 Type locality: Greenland. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality in Green- 

 land. 



35. Mollisia Sabalidis (Ellis & Mart.) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Dermatea Sabalidis Ellis & Mart. Am. Nat. 18: 1147. 1884. 

 Cenangium Sabalidis Sacc. S>!I. Fung. 8: 562. 1889. 



Apothecia gregarious, or scattered, shallow cup-shaped, or 

 scutellate, scarcely exceeding .3 mm. in diameter, externally 

 tobacco-brown and clothed with very poorly developed hair-like 

 structures which give the apothecium a powdery appearance; 

 hymenium slightly concave, dark-brown ; asci clavate, reaching 

 a length of 35 n and a diameter of 6-7 /x, 8-spored; spores 2- 

 seriate or irregularly crowded, ellipsoid, 1-1.3 X 4 6 /i; paraphy- 

 ses filiform, slender, scarcely enlarged above. 



On dead petioles of Sabal serrulata. 



Type locality: Green Cove Springs, Florida. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



The apothecia do not appear to the writer to be erumpent. 

 It is certainly not a Dermea. 



36. Mollisia nipteroides Ellis & Ev. Proc. Acad. Sci. Phila. 1893: 

 147. 1893. 



Apothecia cup-shaped, substipitate, or almost sessile, reach- 

 ing a diameter of 1-1.5 mm., umber-colored but whitened out- 

 side by a pruinose coat and a short, erect, glandular pubescence 

 which is more abundant toward the margin; asci cylindric, 

 reaching a length of 35-40 ^ and a diameter of 5-6 /x; spores 2- 

 seriate, with two or three oil-drops, straight, or slightly curved, 

 1-1.5 X 4-5 /x; paraphyses branched above and bearing minute, 

 globose conidia. 



On dead stems of Smilax. 



Type locality: St. Martinville, Louisiana. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



The only specimen seen is the type collection in The New 

 York Botanical Garden. 



37. Mollisia tenella (Cooke & Ellis) Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 349. 



1889. 



Peziza tenella Cooke & Ellis, Grevillea 7: 40. 1878. 



