256 The North American Cup-Fungi 



The original description of this species is brief and unsatis- 

 factory. The above description is based on material in the 

 Ellis collection. The species will bear more investigation. 



20. Lachnella tautilla (Phill. & Hark.) Seaver, comb, nov, 



Peziza tautilla Phill. & Hark. Bull. Calif. Acad. Sci. 1: 21. 1884. 

 Dasyscypha tautilla Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 445. 1889. 



Apothecia scattered, stipitate, minute, white, cup-shaped, 

 clothed to the base with slender, hyaline-white hairs; asci broad- 

 clavate, 8-spored; spores ovoid, 1 X 4 m; paraphyses filiform. 



Among the hairs on the under side of living leaves of Garrya 

 eJU plica . 



Type locality: Tamalpais, California. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



ExsiCCATi: Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 2041; Rab. -Winter, 

 Fungi Eu. 3468 (from California). 



21. Lachnella virginella (Cooke) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Peziza virginella Cooke; Cooke & Ellis, Grevillea 4: 178. 1876. 

 Dasyscypha virginella Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 444. 1889. 

 Lachnum virginellum Zeller, Mycologia 26: 293. 1934. 



Apothecia scattered, long-stipitate, externalh' white-tomen- 

 tose; hymenium whitish; hairs hyaline, reaching a length of 40- 

 50 ju; asci clavate, reaching a length of 40 fx and a diameter of 

 4-5 /x, short-stipitate, 8-spored; spores fusoid, 1 X 6-7 /x; pa- 

 raphyses lanceolate. 



On leaves of species of Vaccinium. 



Type locality: New Jersey. 



Distribution : New Jersey to Pennsylvania and Louisiana. 



Exsiccati: Ellis & Ev. N. Am. Fungi 2144. 



22. Lachnella Gaultheriae (Ellis & Ev.) Seaver, comb. nov. 



Dasyscypha Gaultheriae Ellis & Ev. Erythea 1: 199. 1893. 

 Lachnum Gaultheriae Zeller, Mycologia 26: 292. 1934. 



Apothecia seated on large, semicircular, grayish to brownish 

 spots with a dark-purple border, stipitate, nearly closed at first, 

 then opening and becoming cup-shaped, pale-orange, clothed 

 externally with a dense coat of short, white hairs; hymenium 

 pale-orange, reaching a diameter of 1 mm. ; stem short, rather 

 less than the diameter of the apothecium; asci clavate-cylindric, 

 reaching a length of 40 /x and a diameter of 3-4 /x, 8-spored; 

 spores 2-seriate, ellipsoid, or clavate-ellipsoid, 1.25 X 4-5 /x. 



