Helotiella 287 



paraphyses filiform, branched about half way from the base, 

 granular, hyaline. 



On decorticated stems of Arctostaphlos Tracyi. 



Type locality: Trinidad, California. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



Illustrations: Mycologia 28: 250,/. 1. 



54. HELOTIELLA Sacc. Bot. Cent. 18: 218. 1884. 



Apothecia minute, sessile, or subsessile, usually bright- 

 colored as in Helotiiim, or occasionally dark, clothed with hairs; 

 asci cylindric, or subcylindric, usually 8-spored; spores ellipsoid, 

 or fusoid, becoming 1 -septate; paraphyses filiform. 



Type species, Helotium Citri Penz. 



On monocotyledonous plant tissues. 



On stems of Andropogon. \. H. aureococcinea. 



On old cornstocks, Zea. 2. H. pygmaea. 



Not on monocotyledonous tissues. 



On twigs of Lonicera. 3. H. Lonicerae. 



On rotten wood. 



Apothecia orange-colored. 4. H. trabinelloides. 



Apothecia white or whitish. 



Spores appendiculate. 5. H. cornuta. 



Spores not appendiculate. 6. H. major. 



On old paper. 7. H. papyricola. 



1. Helotiella aureococcinea (Berk. & Curt.) Massee, Jour. Linn. 

 Soc. 35: 108. 1901. 



Solenopezia aureococcinea Rehm, Ann. Myc. 2: 352. 1904. 

 Patellaria aureococcinea Berk. & Curt, in Ellis-, N. Am. Fungi 63. 1878. 

 nom. nud. 



Apothecia scattered, sessile, at first closed and subglobose, 

 finally expanded, externally brownish-black, densely clothed 

 about the margin with yellow hairs; hairs hyaline with trans- 

 mitted light, reaching a diameter 5-6 fx and a length of 125 n, 

 blunt and slightly roughened ; asci clavate, with the apex rounded, 

 reaching a length of 60-70 /x and a diameter of 7-8 ju; spores 

 fusoid, straight, becoming 1 -septate, 2-2.5 X 15 m; paraphyses 

 filiform with the apex obtuse, hyaline reaching a thickness of 

 2-3 n at their apices. 



On decaying stems oi Andropogon. 



Type locality: Newfield, New Jersey. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



