CORYNE 235 



lobate, smooth, shining, raisin-colored without and within, the 

 substance gelatinous, becoming horny when dry; asci subcylin- 

 dric, reaching a length of 50 m and a diameter of 6-7 jjl; spores 

 usually 1 -seriate, narrow-ellipsoid, hyaline, 4-5 X 7 (x; paraphy- 

 ses slender, slightly enlarged above. 



On trunks of beach, Fagns americana; also reported on Tilia. 



Type locality: Rainbow, Franklin Co., New York. 



Dlstribution: New York to Ontario and Michigan; also 

 reported from England. 



Illustrations: Ann. Rep. N. Y. State Mus. 43: pL 4,f. 5-7; 

 Mycologia 22: pJ. 11; Trans. Brit. Myc. Soc. 29: 152,/. 13. 



2. Ascotremella turbinata Seaver, Mycologia 22: 53. 1930. 

 (Plate 119.) 



Apothecia extremely gelatinous, closely crowded when ^oung, 

 giving rise to ccspitose clusters as they mature, the individual 

 apothecia at first rounded, becoming turbinate, or subturbinate, 

 externally light-colored, reaching a diameter of about 2 cm. and 

 of about the same height, the substance shrinking to a thin film 

 when dry; hymenium much darker than the outside of the apo- 

 thecium, brownish, nearly circular in form, convex, plane, or 

 very slightly concave, even or nearly so, occasionally with a few 

 folds about the margin; asci cylindric, or subcylindric, often 

 strongly swollen; spores small, ellipsoid, 3 4 X 6-7 /x; paraphy- 

 ses slender, often branched. 



On rotten wood. 



Type locality: Ithaca, New York. 



Illustration: Mycologia 22: pi. IZ. 



Distribution: New York. 



Excluded Species 



Peziza concrescens Schvv. Schr. Nat. Ges. Leipzig 1: 118. 1822. This 

 species which was described as a cartilaginous discomycete is a Tremella 

 according to Burt. 



46. CORYNE Tul. Fung. Carp. 3: 190. 1865. 



Producing both conidial and ascigerous fruiting bodies from 

 the same base, the structures occurring in cespitose clumps of 

 similar purple color and both gelatinous, the conidial bodies club- 

 shaped or tongue-shaped; apothecia turbinate, becoming ex- 

 panded, sessile, or substipitate; asci clavate, 8-spored; spores 

 fusoid, hyaline, becoming several-septate; paraphyses filiform. 



