234 The North American Cup-Fungi 



Bulgaria inquinans Fries, Syst. Myc. 2: 167. 1822. 

 Coryne turbinata Bonord. Handh. Myk. 149. 1851. 

 Bulgaria polynwrpha Wettst. Verh. Zool.-Bot. Ges. Wien 35: 595. 1886. 



Apothecia occurring singly, or more often several from a com- 

 mon base in cespitose clumps, at first rounded, or short cylindric, 

 finally expanding and becoming turbinate with the hymenium 

 concave, becoming plane and finally convex with the margin 

 repand, reaching a diameter of 1-4 cm., externally brownish; 

 hymenium black, or bluish-black and shining; asci clavate, 

 reaching a length of 150-200 ^ and a diameter of 9-10 m. ^- 

 spored; spores ellipsoid, unequal-sided and often narrower at one 

 end, becoming pale-brown, 6 7 X 12-14 m; paraphyses slender 

 yellow, or violet brown, 1 ju in diameter. 



On bark of trees, especially the various species of oak, Quercus; 

 occasionally reported on other trees. 



Type locality : Europe. 



Distribution: New York to Alabama, Washington and 

 California; also in Europe. 



Illustrations: F1. Dan. pi. 464; Bull. Herb. Fr. pi. 116; 

 Batsch. Elench. Fung. 1: pi. 11, j. 50; Schmidel, Ic. PI. pi. 70; 

 Schaeff. Fung. Bavar. pi. 158; Hedw. Descr. 2: pi. 6, E.; Bull. 

 Lab. Nat. Hist. State Univ. Iowa 6: pi. 37, f. 2. 



ExsiccATi: Rav. Fungi Car. 5: 43; Ellis, N. Am. Fungi 448; 

 Reliq. Farlow. 100. 



45. ASCOTREMELLA Scaver, Mycologia 22: 53. 1930. 



Haematomyces Authors (in part) not Berk. & Br. Jour. Linn. Soc. 14: 108. 

 1875. 



Apothecia densely crowded, or cespitose, tremelloid, sessile, 

 or substipitate; asci cylindric but often much swollen so that the 

 spores appear relatively small, 8-spored; spores ellipsoid, or more 

 or less irregular in form, usually containing two small oil-drops, 

 hyaline; paraphyses slender, simple, or branched. 



Type species, Haematomyces fagineus Peck. 



Apothecia forming cerebriform masses. 1. A.fagtnea. 



Apothecia cespitose, turbinate. 2. A. turbinata. 



1. Ascotremella faginea (Peck) Seaver, Mycologia 22: 53. 1930, 

 (Plate 118.) 



Haematomyces fagineus Peck, Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 43: 33. 1890. 



Apothecia tremelloid, cerebriform, reaching a diameter of 

 2-4 cm., or forming a continuous mass 8-10 cm. in extent, gyrose- 



