288 The North American Cup-Fungi 



Illustrations: Jour. Linn. Soc. 35: pi. 4, f. 5-7. 

 ExsiCCATi: Ellis, N. Am. Fungi 63 (as Patellaria aureococ- 

 cinea Berk. & Curt. 1878). 



2. Helotiella pygmaea Ellis & Ev. Proc. Acad. Sci. Phila. 1894: 

 350. 1894. 



Apothecia gregarious, minute, pallid, yellowish outside, 

 sparingly clothed and the margin fringed with pale, slender hairs, 

 convex-discoid when moist, .25 .35 mm. in diameter, when dry 

 cup-shaped and yellowish, attached to the substratum by light- 

 colored hairs; asci cylindric, reaching a length of 30 ^x and a 

 diameter of 6 m, 8-spored; spores 2-seriate, fusoid, becoming 

 1-septate, and often slightly constricted, 3-3.5 X 10-14 m; 

 paraphyses not observed. 



On old cornstalks, Zea Mays. 



Type locality: Ohio. 



Distribution : Known only from the type locality. 



3. Helotiella Lonicerae (Cash) Seaver, comb. nov. 

 Tapesia Lonicerae Cash, Mycologia 28: 299. 1936. 



Apothecia sessile, superficial, soft-fleshy, becoming patelli- 

 form, irregularly contorted when dry, the margin crenulate, 

 inrolled, 1-2.5 mm. in diameter, exterior black, or dull livid- 

 purple, densely setose at the margin; hairs brown, smooth, sep- 

 tate, 2.5-3 X 140-170 m; hymenium pale-gray; asci cylindric, 

 reaching a length of 65 75 /x and a diameter of 7-9 ^i\ spores 

 obliquely 1-seriate, fusoid-clavate, 1-septate, 2-2.5 X 12-13.5 /x; 

 paraphyses filiform, slightly inflated above. 



On twigs of Lonicera involucrata. 



Type locality: Mesa Lakes, Colorado. 



Distribution: Known only from the type locality. 



Illustrations: Mycologia 28: 302,/. 1. 



Mr. Richard Korf who is working on the genus A rack no peziza 

 regards this as a true Tapesia and believes that it should not 

 be included with the present genus. 



4. Helotiella trabinelloides Rehm, Ann. Myc. 2: 36. 1904. 



Helotium trabinelloides Rehm, Hedwigia 26: 82. 1887. 



Solenopezia trabinelloides Sacc. Syll. Fung. 8: 477. 1889. 



Helotiella Nuttallii Ellis & Ev. Proc. Acad. Sci. Phila. 1894: 351. 1894. 



Dasyscypha trabinelloides Massee, Jour. Bot. 34: 145. 1896. 



